Word: media
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second thoughts about pursuing public office, and not only because Jack and Bobby were assassinated. For one thing, when Jack, Bobby and Ted were growing up in the 1930s and '40s, the press wasn't watching their every move. But the Kennedy cousins have suffered the attention of the media from the moment they were old enough to cut a high school class or fail a bar exam. It's enough to make any sane person wary of doing anything that would bring the media further into one's life. Like run for office. Last year, when Joe II retired...
John Kennedy's death unleashed a wave of public emotion and a predictable flood of media coverage. Indeed, it would not be too churlish to ask why--other than being a nice guy and a good-looking celebrity with a historically resonant heritage--Kennedy deserved such an outpouring. So in putting together this issue, we looked for a worthwhile lesson we could draw both from the way he lived and the emotions wrought by his death...
...false intimacy isn't new, of course. People wept when Rudolph Valentino died in 1926 and when the Lindberghs lost their baby in 1932. It's natural and in most ways harmless to identify with the famous. But today's combination of busy lives, fragmented families and saturation media coverage of celebrities means this is the only intimacy many of us experience outside our immediate family. And that's unhealthy, because these celebrity relationships...
Gartner also won a Pulitzer Prize--the 1997 award for editorial writing--before assuming the top post at NBC. In 1994, he was an Institute of Politics fellow, and led a study group on the relationship between media and politics...
...shame, though, and especially here, in this city. Outside the Beltway--which, as I learned my first day, is not a figure of speech but an actual highway that circles the city--the media figures probably seem as big as the politicians they cover. Sam Donaldson vs. Dennis Hastert--is there any doubt who's bigger? But walking the sidewalks of this city, with its overarching civic feel--statues, columns and marble, with its shifting tectonic plates of power, it is clear that the public officials, the lawmakers and those--in crisp suits, loud shoes and big grins--who would...