Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board of Trustees Chair Amey A. DeFriez '49 said there would be a press conference today at 2 p.m. She refused further comment on the appointment, however, saying, "I would rather get into it after the Trustees have acted...
...PRESS: TV Guide gets a Rupert Murdoch revamp...
...long table set up with microphones and teacups. The rows of chairs were filled with hundreds of journalists, all of whom had to dodge banner-waving marchers, speeding ambulances and mazes of bicycles in Tiananmen Square to make what was supposed to be a 5:45 p.m. press conference by Mikhail Gorbachev. Then, just at showtime, came the news: the session was being moved five miles away to the state guesthouse where Gorbachev was staying in the Diaoyutai compound...
...Soviet delegation was careful not to do or say anything in public that might offend the Chinese. When a briefing by Soviet cultural luminaries was dominated by questions about the student demonstrations, the director of the Soviet press center at the Beijing International Hotel finally blew up. "You are putting us in a difficult position," he snapped. "Ask questions about our country." Foreign Ministry press spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov resorted to irony when queried about the wreath-laying ceremony. "We are guests and never argue with our hosts," he replied. "We recognize that it would be physically impossible to carry...
...China, and even then the events were presented as two completely different stories. During Gorbachev's stay, Soviet television had blacked out the demonstrations. However, within minutes after Gorbachev boarded the plane in Shanghai and headed home, TASS carried its first detailed story on the crisis. What the Soviet press has yet to report, of course, is what Gorbachev, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and the other members of the Soviet diplomatic team really thought about their extraordinary visit. Quipped a Soviet journalist: "We will never really know the true story until Shevardnadze retires and writes his memoirs...