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...vast indifference about it all. Indignation has been lost, says Columnist Joseph Kraft, in a disillusion with people in high places. Kraft quotes a man who says, "To most people [Government corruption] just one bunch of thieves robbing another bunch of thieves." The Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor finds people's moral outrage so depleted after a decade of assault from duplicity about Viet Nam to tax loopholes that it cannot get aroused over a little electronic eavesdropping, or the windfall of a few millions to corporate friends of the Administration. Eight Washington Post reporters tramping throughout...
...election campaign. And the strategy could be effective. The fact that many of the larger news organizations lean to the liberal side gives the Administration ammunition. The occasional errors committed by newsmen add to the media's credibility problem. "The White House is feeding on it," says Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, a past president of the White House Correspondents Association. "Now that they are coming up to the campaign, they look for a scapegoat. The press is an immediate and vulnerable target, because people tend to blame the press for the bad news they read...
...China for six years as a TIME-LIFE correspondent and impressed his colleagues at the first press luncheon by asking a waitress in Mandarin to bring him green tea. But the Chinese proved courteously unenlightening to everyone. "A question about what happened to Deputy Premier Lin Piao," wrote Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, "produces a polite reminder to eat your spinach...
Longest Journey--Returning Home. Journalists who accompanied Nixon to China give their impressions. Max Frankel (N.Y. Times), Peter Lisagor (Chicago Daily News) and Theodore White. 11, March 6, Chan...
Goldberg told Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. "I could not be--and never was--'bored' with the great work the Supreme Court is charged with doing under our Constitution...