Word: professionalism
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Perhaps the most intriguing point raised by Will's book is not its specific contents or arguments--for Will himself relishes political argument for the sake of argument, not necessarily for its substance--but the phenomena the book highlights. While most columnists are content to rehash news events, adding a...
"American journalism has lost one of its great mentors," James C. Thomson Jr., current curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday, adding. "Louis Lyons was a national conscience for the profession. He embodied excellence, courage and integrity." Thomson said that even after Lyons retired, he "was constantly in touch with...
Had his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial been violated? A U.S. Appeals Court thought so in 1980. But last week, by a 6-to-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled otherwise. Because MacDonald's appeals have caused most of the delay since 1975, the key period for...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the...
Laschen's assigned sidekick, a good-time Charley photographer who has qualms neither visceral nor moral about making a profession of photographing severed limbs, deals with the situation by not thinking about it. Laschen, mouth he claims, "I don't write what I think. I write what I see. It...