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...accepted "rules of hygiene" for the press in these matters were set down by Walter Lippmann, the most widely respected columnist of his day, in a 1964 television interview: "Newspapermen can't be the cronies of great men. There always has to be a certain distance between high public officials and newspapermen. I wouldn't say a wall or a fence, but an air space, that's very necessary." Of course, Lippmann never practiced what he preached. As the personal acquaintance of twelve Presidents, Lippmann was the leading exemplar of what Columnist Colgman McCarthy calls "hobnobbery journalism...
George Will is in a sense a victim of standards that have changed since Lippmann would write a speech for a public figure, then write a column praising the address. A number of Washington journalists decline to socialize after hours with those they report upon; others like Will consider the experience valuable and intend to go on doing so. But they are then under an obligation to be more forthcoming to the public about what they are doing. The line between journalistic detachment and participation may be wavery, but it is there, and George Will overstepped...
Like the "suburban generation" of the Eisenhower years and the "lost generation" of the '20s, the period of the '80s is inactive by comparison to the age of Walter Lippmann and the "revolution" of the '60s, Trudeau said. He added that the periods of inactivity are necessary rest periods which society uses to regenerate itself...
...years in Florence steeping himself in Renaissance art. At 30, he became the youngest director in the history of London's National Gallery. Between knighthood (1938) and the award of a life peerage (1969), Lord Clark wrote a score of books, maintained heady friendships (Winston Churchill, Walter Lippmann, Pablo Picasso), and held an array of academic titles (Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford) and cultural posts (founding chairman of the Independent Television Authority). "K," as chums called him, was self-deprecating in a 1974 autobiography: "My whole life might be described as one long, harmless confidence trick...
...worth the effort. This seeming apathy prompted his apparent decision not to join in Harvard's Socialist Club, a serious organization created for the discussion of both the theory and practice that would put control of popular institutions under the control of the people most needing their benefits. With Lippmann, who had already gained a reputation for his precise analytical thinking and staid political viewpoint, the Socialist Club promised more than the good time and energy outlet Reed had become used...