Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American press has been negligent and biased in its sporadic coverage of civil strife in Northern Ireland, panelists at an Institute of Politics forum at the Kennedy School said last night...
...panel--which included four journalists and Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.)--told the approximately 150 people in attendance that press coverage of the 20-year-old struggle between Protestants and Catholics in that country must be more objective to have any impact...
...Thomas, a former reporter for The New York Times in North Ireland, said the press was ineffective largely because journalists never report from where violence occurs...
...often the press stays in London or in Belfast if they come to Ireland at all," said Thomas...
...while the panelists generally agreed that press coverage was inadequate, they disagreed on the issues dividing the religious factions in the six Northern Ireland counties...