Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brawley case is different. The advisors' political aspirations have conflicted with good advice. Instead of seeking justice for Brawley, the advisors are undermining her case by making ranting accusations about the involvement of the mob and the Irish Republican Army in the New York judicial system...
Reading, alas, can be deceiving. Finally, a few words about the press, that media mob of 3,000 journalists who descended on Iowa like commandos hitting the beaches of Normandy. Certainly, when it came to influencing the results, the press proved to be a paper tiger. Despite his glowing clip file, Bruce Babbitt foundered in Iowa, while Bob Dole, the media's favorite Republican, was upended in New Hampshire -- and later had the temerity to blame the press in part for his defeat. Reporters were doomed to repeat as gospel political orthodoxies that were soon outpaced by events. Try these...
...Such close monitoring can cut both ways for a journalist in the field. CNN's Latin-American correspondent Lucia Newman was taunted by a mob opposed to Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega after she was seen smiling during a televised interview with the general. But when ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle granted an interview to a U.S. network, he chose CNN because of its high profile in Panama. Ultimately, Newman's reporting offended Noriega, and she was expelled from the country...
Scheim's critical examination of Ruby's testimony before the Warren Commission accounts for some of his book's most remarkable passages. Ruby hinted broadly that he was part of the Mob, that members of the Dallas Police Department co-operated in his murder of Oswald, and that as he was testifying, his life was in grave danger. It is a hair-raising experience to read through Ruby's continued pleading that the hearings be moved to Washington, where he might speak with somewhat less fear of being murdered on the spot...
...Warren Commission, working shortly after Kennedy's death, found that there was no proof that Ruby had connections to the Mob. Like some previous authors, Scheim accuses members of the commisssion of intentionally passing over evidence of Mafia involvement in the assassination, and he finds sparse but suggestive evidence to support his claim. After reading this book, one finds it clear that the Warren Commission's failure to recognize Ruby's ties reflects either spectacular incompetence or sinister motives...