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Another explanation -- that the problems extend beyond engineering and involve crew training -- came from an unexpected corner. In the current issue of the Soviet publication Smena, which went to press well before the Echo II accident, a Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they...
Public mores may have changed over the past three decades, but the press still finds itself trapped by the rituals that govern its coverage of scabrous gossip. Today the journalistic rules of righteous rumormongering have been liberalized, even though the results in the form of tarnished reputations often remain all too familiar. Leading newspapers and the television networks are less likely to permit the wire services to do their dirty work for them. Instead, the new, more permissive approach allows them to write and broadcast artfully crafted stories about the rumors themselves, thereby spreading calumny while piously decrying...
Presidential campaigns have never been an arena for the fainthearted: the awesome powers of the office may implicitly permit the press to waive normal strictures of taste and delicacy in the pursuit of rumor. But until recently, journalists tended to judge members of Congress by a more humane standard. It was not too long ago that a prominent legislator could be carried off the Senate floor in a drunken stupor without a word of his public intoxication appearing in the press. Such journalistic self-censorship certainly did little to promote sobriety among public officials, but it did help create...
...fact, the majority of gay men and women still do not openly disclose their sexual orientation because prejudice remains so deeply embedded in the U.S. About 25 million Americans are gay, but society's institutions, from government to the church and the press to advertising, virtually ignore their existence. "America is not only reluctant to recognize news events or address public issues concerning gays, it also refuses to educate citizens on the nature of homosexuality itself," write the authors. Americans, they hold, continue to harbor distorted perceptions. Among them: people choose to be gay, homosexuals are kinky sex addicts...
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