Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meantime, until something happens, the press has to keep its eye on Wallace and not worry too much about his folks. For some reason--maybe because of the incompetence and laziness of Wallace's small, sinister-looking entourage, or more likely because of the very fact that Wallace's candidacy is the only one of the three that owes its existence to mass support rather than organizational backing--the Wallace campaign looks more chaotic and uninteliigible from up close than it does from a distance...
...statement released to the press, the M.I.T. resistance said it created the sanctuary in order to "establish a forum for O'Connor to express the reasons why he is resisting. We are expressing our solidarity with him and all of those who are taking similar stands. We all lack the basic control of our own lives, that is the essence of true democracy. The only difference is that the soldier knows he is being controlled and manipulated, while we are given the illusion of self-control," the statement said...
Kraft believes the press is out of touch with what he calls "Middle America," the mass of citizens who believed that Daley was right in ordering the demonstrators beaten. He concludes by questioning the privileges that the press has always assumed: ... those of us in the media would be wise to exercise a certain caution, a prudent restraint in pressing for a plenary indulgence to be in all places at all times as the agents of the sovereign public...
Kraft's reaction to the press's anger in Chicago is shame. As a journalist schooled in the myth of objectivity, he seems to feel guilty after showing his feelings. And justifies his action by turning to still another meaningless journalistic cliche--that the reporter is the "agent of the sovereign public...
Like the university and most other non-governmental institutions in this country, the press is undergoing the turmoil of self-analysis. The result can be the hopelessness of Kraft or the joy of Mailer. In the prying loose, something very fine may appear--but only if the journalist remembers that he is a man with feelings (all the time, even on duty), and that those feelings are some of the most important things he can write about...