Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's press was effective for most of the game, but dry shooting spells at the end of each half kept the Crimson out of the press in crucial points of the contest...
...long as we press them, we play our style of basketball," Phillips said. "Penn did a good job bringing the ball up the court, but we got some big plays and we played well in the press. We didn't lose because of that...
...debate over political bias in the press is as old as newspapers themselves. For years right-wing critics have complained that the U.S. news media are a bastion of anti-Establishment liberalism, while left-of-centers charge that ownership by corporate conglomerates has turned the country's newspapers and TV networks into profit-hungry servants of the Establishment. Rarely, however, does the debate get down to cases. What would happen, for example, if a radical socialist went to work, politically incognito, for some of the nation's most prestigious newspapers...
...usually covert, occasionally openly anti-Establishment reporter." A journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1987 (he is now on sabbatical), MacDougall, 57, says that only the security of tenure finally enabled him to reveal himself as a "closet socialist boring unobtrusively from within ((the)) bourgeois press." His epitaph: "Eugene V. Debs may be my all-time favorite American and Karl Marx my all-time favorite journalist. But my employer for a decade was the Wall Street Journal...
MacDougall was quickly singled out by conservative critics as living proof of the press's alleged liberal slant. "It shows once more how easy it is to % hoodwink our media elite," wrote Reed Irvine, chairman of the right-wing pressure group Accuracy in Media (AIM). The conservative weekly Human Events said MacDougall's revelations will no doubt "raise concerns about the ability of Marxist agents to penetrate the mainstream media." The Wall Street Journal issued a statement expressing its outrage. "It is troubling," said the Journal, "that any man who brags of having sought to push a personal, political agenda...