Word: nessen
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That candor was much in evidence last week when Bashir assisted his U.S. counterpart, Ron Nessen, at a White House press briefing. Nessen first tried to ban microphones and film crews from the session, but Bashir objected. And when Nessen got into a shouting match with a reporter over a question about Saudi Arabian antiSemitism, Bashir interrupted with a polite answer: "We don't indulge in the internal affairs of Saudi Arabia or the United States." Said one White House press corps veteran: "He could teach Nessen a thing...
...drop dead last month, he evoked a vision of the city as a wayward family to drive home his point. "Responsibility for New York City's financial problems," he said, "is being left on the front doorstep of the federal government--unwanted and abandoned by its real parents." Ron Nessen had used the same kind of metaphor a little earlier, when he called the city "a wayward daughter hooked on heroin...
...strange set of images to use for a complex financial problem, but a powerful one as well, for Ford and Nessen were identifying New York with sons that run deeply against the grain of the American value system. What Ford is really trying to do to New York is to separate it from the American spiritual community. Accusing it of perverting the most integral and sacred element of that community--the family--is the sharpest rhetorical way to effect that separation...
Cold Turkey. The President got the news when he awoke at 5:37 a.m., then summoned his economic advisers. They decided that there was still no reason to take any federal action; no one even suggested that Ford change his position. Reported Press Secretary Ron Nessen: "The President is not going to send money to New York." Nessen made a rather silly comparison between New York and a wayward daughter on drugs. Said he: "Would you help her? Are you going to give her $100 a day to support her habit? The answer is no. You tell...
...were the two networks being a bit disingenuous? "As CBS and NBC know," said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, "the FCC exempts from so-called equal-time regulations on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events." Although the President's speech certainly had political impact (see page 19), it was nevertheless a significant public event. Possibly the networks were trying to underscore their distaste for the equal-time rule by drawing attention to the fact that airing an address as newsworthy as the President's poses risks for broadcasters. In opposing the rule, the networks...