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...limits, the name Roswell speaks to less tangible concerns. Like the black helicopters of the new world order or the racist-police conspiracy to frame O.J. Simpson, the Incident, as it is known, is either pretty sensational stuff or yet another of the ingenious tales those of us who mistrust mainstream institutions tell ourselves to help make sense of a scary, sometimes depressing world. In this case, it is a tale that combines deeply American strains of spirituality and paranoia as well as--let us be frank--a large scoop of native wackiness. One could even say, if one were...
...Freedom Forum have been created in the press's quest to analyze itself. Daily they convene media panels, in which a couple of reporters and a journalism professor sit before an audience and chew over subjects like "Everybody Thinks We're Scum, and No Wonder: Reflections on Public Mistrust of the Media." Grimly, the nonprofits commission polls to take the public's temperature, and the results are unvarying: reporters rank somewhere below concentration-camp guards, nobody believes what he reads in the newspaper, and so on. And the results are then duly reported in (of course) the newspaper...
...know that a lot of tenants have been opposed to [the land swap]," said Naomi L. Seiler '97-'98, administrative director of the Mission Hill After School Program. "There's a general mistrust of what's going to happen...
...fall into the trap of defining what is in their national interest as anything that annoys the U.S. or causes us problems. If the reflex to score points in a zero-sum game becomes a default feature in the software of Russian foreign policy, it will only generate mistrust on our side. That kind of vicious cycle, so familiar during the cold war, would be bad for everyone, but particularly for the Russians. They would risk repeating many of the mistakes that made nine-tenths of the 20th century such a disaster for them. Most notably those mistakes included defining...
Your story on the news wars reflects the pervasive mistrust and cynicism in our society. Media, including TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, are facing the same obstacles as politicians. Both are victims of their own undoing. If you want to know why dwindling attention is being paid to traditional news sources, look to the money, power and special interests that control them and the political apparatus. In my community, the two main newspapers are part of the same conglomerate. Can we really expect unbiased news? When we can't be sure, we turn to other news sources. TOM BURNSIDE Cincinnati...