Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EXECUTION of Charles Brooks, Jr in a Texas prison last week was handled in a bizarre manner by the mainstream news media. In the New York Times, and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the "ethical questions" raised by a doctor's participation in taking Brook's life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more "humane" than giving him a lethal dose of electricity or forcing...
...chipmunk's mainstream pop doesn't satiate your more adventuresome taste, try the Christmas Rock collection on Rhino Records. Likely to become a collectors item, this limited edition on a green, Christmas-tree-shaped disk features one of the hottest punk groups around. The Dragons, as well as California surf-rock veterans the Malibooz. The former let loose with an ear-shattering version of "Silent Night" that makes the infamous Neil Young rendition sound like chamber music. As for the Mals, they make Christmas in California a real treat. Who cares that there's no snow in Malibu. When Santa...
...just society for thousands of white students in the North. This revelation, not Vietnam, inspired SDS to pull away from its democratic-socialist parent organization. Starting with a few hundred members scattered from Harvard to Berkeley, the group gradually constructed a platform which linked the students' own impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between the corporate world, the government and the university which were blamed for blocking fundamental deviation from the status quo. Faced with the opportunity...
...relative security in the face of hardship elsewhere helped inspire some student leaders. As both fans and critics of the New Left have noted the Jewish tradition of leadership in American and European radical movements, in addition to the Jews' unusual concern for other groups separated from the mainstream, must be prominent elements of any thorough portrait of the early...
Aubespin does not regard his employers as being fundamentally racist. Indeed, he says, "top management has made a commitment to bring blacks into the mainstream." Blacks hold 19 of 234 editorial staff jobs at the Courier-Journal and its sister daily, the afternoon Louisville Times; the minority representation of 8.5% at the two papers (including one Hispanic) compares favorably with a national newsroom average of 5.5%. But as Aubespin's story illustrates, even after minority journalists get hired, they face enduring problems in trying to win the professional trust of their colleagues...