Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Addesa's resignation came just six weeks after The Troy Record reported that Addesa had made racial slurs to Grahaem Townshend, a Black player on the Engineer team. Addesa held a press conference in Troy in mid-March to make a public apology for his remarks, but minority student groups continued to protest and call for his resignation...
...unusual for the press to take an interest in presidential families. Jackie O. and the Kennedy kids, LBJ's daughters, the Nixon wedding and Billy Carter all were played prominently in the national news. Their lives, romances and struggles are of national interest...
...problem today, however, is that this curiosity is drawing our attention from substantive concerns. We may applaud the fact that the Bush White House is a lot more open than the secretive and "basement" attitudes of the Reagan days, but the press is reporting the diversion, not the issue...
...eight years, Reagan treated the press as if it had leprosy. The Bush approach, to treat the press as friend and confidant rather than journalist, is quite different. If it goes too far, if journalists become indebted to the president for his time and hospitality, the press may become less critical and less searching...
...coroner's report which determined that the 52 year-old activist committed suicide last week. "Abbie was just too full of life to commit suicide. It just wasn't his style," one friend said Wednesday. "If Abbie were going to kill himself, he would have called a press conference first...