Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff members, charges that most political reporters ask the wrong questions. "Who's paying?" he demands to know. "Who's behind the candidate? Who's really winning?" This is another strong tenet in the Anderson credo -one that unites him both philosophically and tactically with Ralph Nader, with whom he shares material and mutual admiration. They are both obsessed by the influence of private power and big money on public men and public policy. Almost by reflex, Anderson seems to smell danger in the contacts between Government officials and private industry...
...trails must be explored for every one that leads to a genuine story. Not many publishers feel that they can afford the investment, to say nothing of the risk of libel suits. Investigative reporters complain that the press on the whole prefers to report the activities of a Ralph Nader rather than dig up the facts itself...
...pleads for any specific cause, and lambastes almost everybody: Republicans and Democrats, Congressmen and Administration officials, diplomats and business executives, Edward Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover. Some Republicans believe that Democrat Anderson hits harder at them, but that is probably because they currently are in office. Few people except Nader appear in Anderson's column in a favorable light, and some of those who do are surprising. His infrequent pieces on President Nixon have occasionally been sympathetic, and in a 1970 column he gave a plug to the anti-pornography campaign of, believe it or not, Senator Dodd...
...CITIZEN NADER by CHARLES McCARRY 335 pages. Saturday Review Press...
...cannot decide," Charles McCarry lamented in mid-manuscript, "whether Ralph Nader is Jesus Christ or the Manchurian Candidate." The pity is that McCarry and others fail to sense that Nader is-and need be-neither...