Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course Nixon--aren't there at all, except in the news clips. Thus one of the most enjoyable episodes in the film is Woodward's midnight phone call to John Mitchell, in which the former attorney general threatens to "put Katie Graham's teat through a wringer" if they print their story. Yet the men responsible for Watergate and the cover-up come off as frightened men making ludicrous mistakes rather than the kind of people who seriously threatened to warp this country's government out of shape. There is no counter-balance to the sympathetic, all-conquering team...
...much more skeptical," he adds dryly, "than when I started out." In fact, it was his well-developed skepticism that prompted Griffith to write his 1974 book How True (subtitle: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News). Its object: to provide readers with an inside view of print and broadcast journalism in order to help them evaluate the news. "It is absolutely necessary to be a skeptical reader," argues Griffith. "The more that boundaries are blurred between straight reporting, editorials and impressionistic reporting, the more the reader needs to judge for himself the reliability of what...
...True: "Talk about what is right and wrong about the press." His intention is not to turn out a "trade column" but to write for the concerned layman and to focus on issues that the public finds "pertinent and fascinating"-such as whether the press should print everything it knows. "Some journalists feel that because of the First Amendment they couldn't possibly be accountable to anyone," says Griffith. "That position is nice to hold, but an awful lot of people are very critical of the press and want it to feel more responsible for what it does. This...
Recently, in print, Producer Herman Levin asked everyone to perform a willed act of amnesia and forget that Rex Harrison ever played Professor Higgins and Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle. That is impossible...
...themes are traditional in print pornography, and the emphasis appears to be growing. Since 1968 Florida State University Sociologist Don Smith has been collecting and analyzing sex novels that are freely available on newsstands and drugstore racks in small-town America. Smith calls the current crop "basically a literature of power and domination, a literature of machismo." Rape scenes, he reports, now occur twice as often as they did in the 1968 books, but the woman almost always enjoys it. "The subtheme," he says, "is that the female really does want to be subjugated: no matter how much she says...