Word: mistrust
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...Mistrust. What they are charged with is (among other things) a lack of faith. They all have the same insincerity, the same distrust of anyone else's sincerity. They have the same raw ambition, the same bitter kiss-my-foot contempt for each other. They all have the same childish fretfulness of mind...
Instead of making Liebling swear off the press, this mistrust made him a constant and critical newspaper reader. As he says: "When one cannot get the truth from any one paper (and I do not say that it is an easy thing, even with the best will in the world, for any one paper to tell all the truth), it is valuable to read two with opposite policies to get an idea of what is really happening." It also provides him with copy for a witty-and sometimes windy-department in the New Yorker called "The Wayward Press," a running...
...Reporter Liebling's solutions (which all call for big money, too): 1) newspapers backed by labor unions, citizens' groups and political parties, 2) endowed newspapers, "devoted to pursuit of daily truth as Dartmouth is to that of knowledge." Liebling thinks an increasing number of readers share his mistrust of newspapers. Says he: "There is less a disposition to accept what they say than to try to estimate the probable truth . . . like aiming a rifle [with] a deviation to the right...
...status of Spitzbergen? Perhaps this new threat is to set the world twitching while other problems are influenced by pressures developed in this new threat? If this is the Russian tack, and many feel it is, the answer is much the same. For bargain-basement diplomacy signifies a mistrust of motive, an unwillingness to place confidence in a structure of good will and fill in the details according to principles agreed upon during...
Said Baruch to Wallace: "You have disappointed me sorely. Your reluctance publicly to correct your mistakes tends to confusion and mistrust...