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...chilly, gray Friday in Houston, and Clay had been inside the induction center for hours. Newspapermen and assorted fans were milling around. Then the colonel came out and told them what they had known would happen all along. Cassius Clay had refused to step forward when his name was called. He had refused to enter the United States Army...
...past five years, nine Albany newspapermen have been subpoenaed a total of 20 times by the Albany County grand jury. Each time, the jury has shown little interest in finding out about criminal matters that the newsmen have reported. Instead, it has investigated the journalists themselves-their private habits as well as their professional performances. The objective is obviously harassment. "In my 35 years as a newspaperman," says Gene Robb, publisher of both the morning Times-Union and the afternoon Knickerbocker News, "I have never heard of a comparable situation...
Brown's campaign techniques were just as obsolete as the issues he emphasized. In a campaign where "image" counted heavily, Brown relied on the metropolitan press for the exposure he needed. Los Angeles and San Francisco newspapermen, generally unsympathetic to Reagan, were provided with well-researched smears against Reagan that produced big headlines. But for all this publicity, Reagan probably reached more voters through his frequent television appearances; he opened his campaign with a masterful fireside chat and spent unheard of amounts of TV, to capitalize on his good looks and long experience before the camera...
...unlike some crack newspapermen and dedicated pamphleteers he did not, and does not, hold a conspiracy theory of history. For him the function of a newspaper is not so much to expose evil as to educate, to reduce the sum total of confusion and ignorance in the world. So the prospect of continuous battle to prevent unnecessary secrecy and unintentional accumulation of power must have been rather pleasing...
Among his fellow newspapermen, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Royal Brougham, 71, has an understandable reputation as an oddball. Who ever heard of a sportswriter teaching Sunday school? More incredible, who ever heard of a sportswriter who does not swear, smoke or drink? And who ever heard of a sportswriter who gives money away...