Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though witnesses were sympathetic with newscasters, they were scornful of other programming's effect on children. Robert MacNeil, a former NBC newsman now with the BBC, called TV the fabricator of a "decivilizing" mythological America, where violence is "sanctified" as a respected solution to human problems. "The adventure serials, the police shows, and the westerns all say that violence is fun, violence is manly, violence gets you girls," he said. "The networks may be cutting down on the number of blanks fired, but the cherishing of guns goes...
...emphasize the changing character of his regime, Premier George Papadopoulos last week granted his first interview in many months to a foreign newsman. Over cups of thick Turkish coffee in his wood-paneled office in Athens, Papadopoulos told TIME'S Wilton Wynn of his desire to reestablish parliamentary government in Greece, reaffirmed his allegiance to King Constantine and declared his own willingness to step down from power. Self-confident and relaxed, the Premier avoided any reference to the seamier side of his army-backed regime, which still holds 1,800 Greeks in prison camps in the Aegean islands...
...television newsman in Shreveport, La., was erroneously reported to have had his car repossessed. It took him more than a year to have that false report corrected, and his battle with the credit agency has since cost him a job and a home loan...
Klein will need to summon all his strength as a newsman and as an editor to make his new job work. For his protestations of probity last week will undoubtedly be replayed to him the moment the new Administration gets caught in even the most trivial shading, inflation or seeming suppression of the facts...
...activists, he invaded Carson National Forest in late 1966 and "arrested" two rangers for trespassing on what he termed his sovereign state. When several members of his group last year found themselves in jail, a whooping band of raiders wounded two officers and kidnaped a deputy sheriff and a newsman. Although the state police were swiftly mobilized and augmented by a National Guard force with tanks, Tijerina's people slipped away. Arrested later, Tijerina and nine companions were charged with kidnaping and assault. He came to trial last week. As the jury selection began, Tijerina fired his attorney...