Word: poorman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Poorman, managing editor of the Detroit News, tells Wallace that it is "dishonest" for reporters to accept favors, although he also admits receiving a press discount on the purchase of a car three years ago. Poorman has since chaired a study on junketing for the Associated Press Managing Editors, and forbidden News staffers to accept any gratuities at all, but he sees no quick reform: "The whole issue is greeted with tightly controlled apathy on the part of many newspapermen...