Word: offends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pointed out to him, such errors offend not only Fielding's sense of professionalism but a sort of noblesse oblige which he works hard to maintain. A product of prep schools, Princeton and genial genealogy, Fielding is descended on his father's side from Novelist Henry Fielding, related on his mother's to Naturalist William Temple Hornaday. After a brief postgraduate career as a mutual funds salesman, Temp turned to the typewriter and sold his first article to the Reader's Digest in 1940. He was then called into the Army and sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., where his commanding...
...years, he has seen the President only three times in the past 13 years?the third time only three minutes before they walked into the East Room last week. While he is generally of the conservative school, he is moderate enough, particularly on racial issues, not to offend most liberals too greatly. Finally, as Nixon pointedly noted?his mind obviously on the financial dealings that forced Fortas to resign a fortnight ago ?Burger has shown "unquestioned integrity throughout his private and public life...
...know the rules." John Coughlin states his paper's policy bluntly: "You can't sell sex in the Hartford Courant." Loren Osborn, ad manager of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, takes a different stand. "I will allow just about anything in a movie ad. If the movie might offend anyone, let's show it like it is in the ad so they can find out beforehand and not be rudely surprised once they've taken a seat in the theater...
...were not." Newspapers were not much better. Gilligan did not think that televised distortion of the news was more frequent or more harmful than selective exclusion of news by newspapers. Editors, he said, usually have no qualms about blacking out certain events or stories that offend their biases. He challenged his audience to count up the columns of straight political news in a metropolitan daily. "There's very little hard information about politics. . . . It's really impossible to get news on, say, a bill in Congress...
...KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...