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...hour mélodrame à clef has started a vigorous debate about the propriety of taking fictional liberties-including some extreme ones-with painful, important events of recent political history (see Newswatch). Though they watched it with fascination, many viewers felt that Behind Closed Doors trivialized what it piously intended to portray: a sordid and tragic interlude in national politics...
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...past decade. "It is all right to utter opinion but not to publish the supporting evidence." Thus probably no British newspaper would have got away with a disclosure similar to the Washington Post's report last month of secret CIA payoffs to Jordan's King Hussein (see Newswatch). Nor is it likely that a British version of the Pentagon papers or the Watergate scandals would ever have seen the light of print...
TIME'S Thomas Griffith in his "Newswatch" [Feb. 7] must be challenged on his assertion that "by common consent, the two best newspapers in America are the New York Times and the Washington Post...