Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard alumni reading the ballot for this spring's Board of Overseers election might think they are looking at a copy of Newsweek...
Buresh, a former bureau chief for Newsweek, will teach a module on the increasing role of women in the media and will also examine the role of gossip in political press coverage...
Casting the First Stone Dept.: Newsweek had some harsh words for "trash t.v." shows such as "Geraldo," "A Current Affair" and "The Morton Downey, Jr. Show." According to Newsweek, they are "sleazy," "dirt," and "trash-masters" which "Shock 'em to attention....Deliver a visceral rush by playing to [the viewers'] most primitive fascinations...
This is certainly an accurate assessment of tabloid television. But only a few weeks later, Newsweek forfeited its moral authority to denounce sensational journalism when its cover story featured "The Horrifying Steinberg Trial...a chilling tale of drug abuse, systematic beatings, and a life of squalor hidden behind a middle-class facade...
Considering that the Steinberg story took precedence over the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the RJR-Nabisco corporate buyout, then-Secretary of State George Schultz's refusal to grant PLO leader Yasir Arafat a visa and the electoral victory of Benazir Bhutto '73 in Pakistan, can we believe that Newsweek had anything in mind except appealing to our "most primitive fascinations...