Word: newsweek
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...with watching political battles. The 1988 presidential campaign is Shapiro's third as a journalist. He wrote about politics for the Washington Post from 1979 to 1983, covered the presidential jockeying for Newsweek from 1983 until 1986 and now does so for TIME, which he joined last March. Shapiro enjoys observing the aspirants and savors the unexpected, such as Gary Hart's departure from the race. "That's the wonderful thing about politics," says Shapiro. "You never know...
After hearing Oliver North's testimony, Newsweek decided yes. North had justified the Administration's widespread deception of Congress by claiming that members often leaked sensitive information. When pressed for examples, he cited stories before the 1986 U.S. raid on Libya and ones detailing the 1985 interception of an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro. That prompted Newsweek to disclose one of the sources for its October 1985 cover story on the Achille Lauro. "Details of the interception," it noted, "were leaked by none other than North himself...
...secret in Washington that North had provided information on many stories to a variety of news organizations, including TIME. "Ollie was the biggest leaker in this Administration," one official told the Wall Street Journal. But no publication had ever fingered him as the source for a specific story until Newsweek decided that his accusations against Congress warranted such a disclosure. "When a guy lies on national television, at that point you have to reassess the rules," said Newsweek's media writer Jonathan Alter. "Given these unusual circumstances, we felt an obligation to point out to our readers that North himself...
...Kalb, who is now director of Harvard's Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "You can't eat off a source's plate and then later say you don't like the food," comments Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh. Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Nicholas Horrock, a former Newsweek correspondent, felt compelled to promise his reporters that the paper would never compromise their pledges of confidentiality. Said he: "It's a watershed change in policy to name your own sources. It's outrageous...
Part of the reason is practical: a news organization that breaks a confidence may find it more difficult to get information in the future. "Often the only way to get that sort of account is to promise anonymity," says one upset Newsweek Washington correspondent. There is also a legal reason: judges may be more likely to force a news organization to reveal a source if in the past it has made such disclosures voluntarily. "If a judge knows that a particular institution has been less than consistent, he could be influenced by that prior practice," says James Goodale...