Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succumbing to the twin addictions of ambition and drugs in The Boost. His Oscar nomination was for Salvador, a feverish performance of Yanqui journalism confronting Latin revolution that never found the audience it deserved. The big crowd, catching Woods occasionally on television or doing heavy duty in a mainstream movie, has yet to get his message. Or maybe that message is too clear and the public hates what it is hearing...
...Feel Good pounds in the background of a TV commercial for spark plugs. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag sells a brand of rice. It's been a long time since the raw, driving soul music of James Brown sounded dangerous to mainstream white America. The rhythm-and-blues man, who says he is 55, belonged to a presidential task force and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won two Grammy Awards and has had an audience with the Pope. When the phone rings in his office in Augusta, Ga., a receptionist crisply answers...
...These have got to be mainstream power issues or the whole society is in trouble," Schroeder said. "All of us have got to get out and work on this because it is so critical...
...shows once more how easy it is to % hoodwink our media elite," wrote Reed Irvine, chairman of the right-wing pressure group Accuracy in Media (AIM). The conservative weekly Human Events said MacDougall's revelations will no doubt "raise concerns about the ability of Marxist agents to penetrate the mainstream media." The Wall Street Journal issued a statement expressing its outrage. "It is troubling," said the Journal, "that any man who brags of having sought to push a personal, political agenda on unsuspecting editors and readers should be teaching journalism at a respected university...
Whatever his motivation, MacDougall's shadowy career does reveal something about the limits of ideological bias in the mainstream media. MacDougall stresses that his beliefs merely influenced the types of stories he tried to pursue. "I was first and foremost a journalist," he says, "and I stuck to accepted standards of newsworthiness, accuracy and fairness...