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And last week Haig showed that bureaucratic wars and influence jockeying don't stop even during events like presidential shootings. After telling an impromptu press conference that he was "in control" after Reagan "took a round" in his left side, Haig proceeded to misrepresent the presidential line of succession. Characterisitcally...
And in emphasizing dichotomy between the church and the revolution, the play simplifies and even misinterprets other factors in the peasants' struggle against oppression. In particular, the image of the purity and impartiality of the church seems to grossly misrepresent the past or present realities of life in Central America...
The Church Committee revealed the extent to which intelligence agencies, primarily the Central Intelligence Agency, were involved in clandestine and covert relationships with both academic institutions and individual academics. In 1976 we said that the report confirmed that "...Universities and scholars have been paid to lie about the sources of...
The pressure to produce has led some Enquirer staffers to misrepresent themselves or their publication to gain access to people or places. One reporter tried to pass herself off as a tourist with a broken-down car when she went to see Warren Beatty in late 1978, hoping to find...
But one of the Pulitzer judges, Eugene Patterson of the St. Petersburg Times, was worried about changing moral standards. Newspapers become censorious when Government agents misrepresent themselves, he noted, and are generally more sensitive to invasions of privacy. (Patterson conceded that he has at times authorized his own reporters to...