Word: newsmen
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...Soviet p.r. offensive, which seemed aimed primarily at European newsmen, drew mixed reviews. "I have never seen this before," marveled Marcella van der Wiel, a reporter for Amsterdam's De Telegraaf. "The Soviets ask how they can help you." Yet most journalists saw a change only in tone, not in message. ''Sure, it is being presented more intelligently," said Jacques Amalric of Paris' Le Monde. "But it is the same old speech...
Moscow's mood swings were carefully monitored by newsmen from other members of the Warsaw Pact, who adjusted the tone of their reports accordingly. The trench-coated cadre kept watch on the summit press center's bulletin boards, which displayed the latest dispatches from the government news agency TASS. Declared Boris Tchakarov, correspondent for the Sofia daily Zemedelsko Zname (Agrarian Banner): "I want to see how TASS is writing about events." In the East bloc news game, not only do you get no extra points for scooping the big guys, you might lose some...
...credibility. Reagan was furious when he learned that a letter from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urging him to hang tough on arms control, had been leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post. The President's mood did not improve after an unidentified White House official accommodated newsmen by replying to a question as to whether the leak was an attempt to sabotage the U.S. bargaining stance: "Sure...
...they must first report to the local police station. At the discretion of the commanding officer, they may be assigned police escorts and travel through violence-torn areas in police vehicles. Many journalists fear that riding with the police will affect their credibility in the eyes of blacks. Newsmen and activists alike are concerned that the absence of reporters and cameras could result in increased brutality against protesters. The Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, bitterly charges that the government wants to restrict the press "so that they can murder our children and there will...
...half miles away, summoned at once by the excited parents. By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying "token"--a simple affair used often by criminals the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services. Hundreds of newsmen discussed it though they did not publish...