Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporters have a responsibility to investigate who politicians are, and editors have a responsibility to present that news in a way comensurate with its importance. What editors choose to run and how prominently they run it affects the news, and this power requires good judgment. As a rule, front page banner headlines should be reserved for hard news, not stories with hazy implications about candidates' personalities...
...case of Gary Hart, the news media made a sensational front-page news story out of a personality story. The New York Times ran a front-page profile of a Miami bit-part actress. It also ran "day after" polls which reflect sensational responses to sensational stories, not stable public opinion. This approach to news is more than bad judgment. It shows complete disregard for the power of the media to affect campaigns, and for its responsibility to make a story as prominent as it is important...
...IMAGINE, for the sake of illuminating the esoteric and misunderstood field of sexology, that Gary makes a mistake. He fails to check if he's being tailed by reporters, and his tryst winds up on the front page of an imaginary paper--let's call it the Miami Z-Herald. What should...
...final game of the season--the last game for Scalise before he leaves his post--is scheduled for Saturday at Dartmouth. But with the current quarantine in effect in Hanover, N.H., (see story, page one) both the date and the site could change...
...first public appearance since the story was published, Hart spoke to the American Newspaper Publishers Association about the story, then delivered a prepared 17-page speech about his economic policies...