Word: overreachers
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...enough to permit this, it probably doesn't require intervention in the first place, and a previously announced exit date merely invites troublemakers to outwait us. You distrust the United Nations, but you should not blame it for American errors. Lately the U.N., with American acquiescence, has tended to overreach, acting like the world government it is not; still the U.N. remains useful, not as an enforcer but as a facilitator of peace. We should work with it, but not under it. Also, we must invent new international structures, including new regional groupings and an expanded, redirected (and possibly renamed...
Another reason is that, on live TV, in front of God and everybody, reporters, like most people, want to be seen as good at their work. So, often, they overreach...
Ever since he started the Hearstian buying spree that made his News Corp. the world's most diverse media company, rivals have been waiting for Rupert Murdoch to overreach and fall. They mocked his ambition to become the first press lord to bestride three continents: Europe, North America and his native Australia, where his holdings account for 60% of total daily-newspaper circulation. They belittled his free-spending plunge into book publishing. They scoffed when he spent more than $2 billion for seven U.S. TV stations, plus a movie studio to provide programs, for his high-risk start...
...this case, though, have less to do with legal hairsplitting than with basic sentiments about the value of free expression and the press. A belief in the virtue of an unshackled and vigorous press means recognizing that the leeway demanded by free debate will sometimes allow writers to overreach their knowledge, or even to trample the truth. However, if one believes that uninhibited speech is dangerous or that the press too frequently serves up sensationalistic trash, one takes the opposite view...
...time. But the directors' shock became outrage when they later learned about the huge piece of the action that Johnson and his top executives planned to grab for themselves: a payoff that could conceivably amount to $2.6 billion in five years. The Johnson gang's greedy overreach could wind up entirely undoing the proposed...