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...jubilant. His enthusiastic selling convinced backers that his project would fill the gap that he thinks exists between weekly newsmagazines and monthlies like Harper's and Atlantic. He had also corralled such notable New, Recent and Old Journalists as Jimmy Breslin, Larry L. King, J. Anthony Lukas, Joe McGinniss, Studs Terkel, Nicholas von Hoffman and Murray Kempton. So the promotional brochures for Hirsch's New Times were festive. A color drawing of some of the writers in a party setting carried the tongue-in-cheek warning: "Huddled in a congenial bar off lower Park Avenue, there lurks...
...McGinniss, after a visit to the Watergate hearings, returns with the unsurprising news of dissension in the Senate committee and its staff. Short pieces on what people were saying about Spiro Agnew in a Baltimore bar and around Palm Springs suggest that reporters who sit around and listen might be better off going out and digging...
...staff last year that he was working on a campaign book. While feeding information to the Republicans, he was really trying to gather material for an "inside" book about internal friction in the G.O.P. camp. He sees no distinction between what he did and the ploy used by Joe McGinniss in 1968. McGinniss worked as a Republican campaign staffer while secretly doing research for The Selling of the President 1968, a tough and witty attack on Richard Nixon and some of his aides. "If I had brought it off," Freidin says ruefully, "everyone would be calling me a big hero...
...distinction between McGinniss and Freidin, of course, is that McGinniss was not taking money from one party to spy on the other. It was not the first time that Freidin had accepted pay while trading information. Freidin, like some other correspondents overseas, became friendly with CIA agents in trouble spots around the world. While covering the Soviet takeovers in Eastern Europe in the 1940s, Freidin was often debriefed by CIA men and got leads from them in return. Occasionally, he says, he accepted CIA money−"so little that it was laughable." To Freidin, a staunch cold warrior like many...
...McGinniss's pessimism is not shared by all advertising and public relations experts. TIME asked a number of them how they would handle the President's account today if they had it, and what advice they would give Nixon about rebuilding his image. Excerpts from their suggestions...