Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pathway in the Qur'an, and in the example of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him). For Muslims, the Prophet (peace be upon him) is the ideal example of a human being; for in him is the highest manifestation of all the good qualities which are within each person...
...than 78% of the people questioned believed the press does not "worry much about hurting people." Almost two-thirds of the respondents agreed that journalists take advantage of victims of circumstance. Perhaps the worst transgressor is the TV camera operator who zooms in on the face of a dead person's relative -- and stays there as the face dissolves in grief. Says Anne Seymour, public affairs director for the National Victim Center in Fort Worth: "Any time there is a yellow line, some journalists in the interest of news will cross over...
...grieving survivors. News organizations, driven by intense competition, rarely let concern for a victim's privacy get in the way of a scoop. The push for live coverage of late-breaking news has put local TV stations in the uncomfortable position of being able to broadcast word of a person's death before the victim's family has been officially notified...
...death, and always instructs her reporters to honor a relative's refusal to talk. "It is one of the few situations in journalism where you should take no for an answer," she says. (However, she does advise the reporter to leave a business card in case the person has a change of heart...
...surrounded on the streets by dancing youngsters chanting "Man-del-a, Man-del-a." To much of the outside world she became the grande dame of the South African revolution, a worthy surrogate for her husband Nelson, the imprisoned black nationalist leader. But Winnie, 52, was a strong, willful person who said and did what she liked. She stirred resentment by ignoring the counsel of other black leaders and the policies of antiapartheid organizations...