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...loyalty thermometer," he says. Frequently he cut through bureaucratic inertia to get necessary decisions made. And he was ever leery of leaks and resentful of the personal ties to reporters that Atwater and other heavyweights had. Yet it was Junior who went on the record with a Newsweek correspondent to deny salacious gossip about the candidate. It was a brash act that both got the adultery rumor into print and choked off its circulation. Occasionally Atwater used him as an emissary to the candidate when the mission was delicate. It fell to Junior to present the idea that Bush would...
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...
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...