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...America? Conservative pressure groups with lots of money to spend spread these charges far and wide. Recent cover stories in two professional magazines challenge the accuracy of the findings. But what is stranger is that the accusations no longer seem to matter so much, and the reason is Ronald Reagan...
...whole controversy now seems a little dated, credit Reagan's success in changing the political atmosphere. He has created a tranquil public acceptance of his presidency much like Eisenhower's, while proposing reforms as potentially sweeping as Roosevelt's. This change conditions the behavior of both the right wing and the press. Right-wingers used to argue that Reagan's popularity proved the victory of their ideology. Consequently, any press questioning of Reagan's program was "out of step with the rest of America," and any compromise by Reagan was the fault of pragmatists on his staff who would...
This was a condescending reading of Reagan's political skill. The public knows better: in poll after poll it rejects many Reagan policies while approving of the man. Reagan often gets his facts wrong and tolerates too much internal bickering, but to the public these are flaws in a man it likes and trusts. The press is expected to do its job in reporting them...
...important: "the activities of domestic Communists, secular humanists, and others whom they believe to be threatening America." Radicals and liberals have similar, though less publicized, discontents, says Gans. Radicals think the press does not keep enough track of misdeeds of the ruling class: "Liberals want more surveillance news" about Reagan's plans to scuttle the New Deal and the Great Society. Gans argues that the press deliberately limits "surveillance news to the most general or widely feared threats, such as natural disasters, domestic political violence, economic upheavals and Communist expansion...
...Editors: Whatever a person's political bent, I like to think there is an intangible value in two human beings' looking into each other's eyes, as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have done [NATION, Nov. 18]. Our political systems may differ, but the hopes and fears of the Soviet and American people do not. Richard L. Swenson Tacoma...