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...obvious reason is that they were bright enough to realize that a book like this was bound to make money. At the time the idea came to them they were, as Anne says, "starving free-lancers" who were doing "you know, nice, normal pieces for The New York Times, Newsweek." And Anne is very matter-of-fact about why they chose to interview celebrities whose names would attract attention, rather than just the man on the street: "Very simple reason," she shrugs, "You gotta survive, when you're freelancing...
Brownmiller lives alone in an "early bourgeois" Greenwich Village apartment, leads a spartan, work-centered life and has no hobbies. A native of Brooklyn, Brownmiller attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan. She appeared in two off-Broadway plays and worked as a Newsweek researcher. Studying nights at the Jefferson School of Social Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first...
...servants and assorted experts furiously, and inconclusively, debated the role of television in feeding violence. This time, however, the controversy has centered more on newsmagazines. In last Wednesday's New York Times, Columnist William V. Shannon, Novelist Saul Bellow and Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz separately lambasted TIME and Newsweek for putting Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme on their covers. In Washington, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott asked rhetorically: "Do cover stories in national newsmagazines incite to violence...
...television, all that attention was unintentionally flattering. Millions more people learned of Sara Jane Moore's attempt to shoot the President from network evening news programs, let alone countless radio reports and front-page newspaper stories, than will read about it this week in TIME and Newsweek. Yet what loomed largest in many minds was the face on the cover. Says NBC News President Richard C. Wald: "The cover hangs around on newsstands all over the country for a week, and that permanence is bound to have an influence all by itself...
...think the newsmagazines and their covers deserved such censure. "Politicians might do better to figure out why our society causes people to act this way than to blame the newsmagazines," says Esquire Media Columnist Nora Ephron. "Even if you could prove that Sara Moore was looking at TIME or Newsweek as she loaded her gun, you'd still have to support a free press." Says Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee: "Journalists are in the business of describing what happens and we don't lie, which is more than a lot of politicians can say. The fearful possibility...