Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet Moscow's seeming willingness to make concessions, the Carter Administration has lately taken great pains to be conciliatory. Last week it moved quickly to knock down reports of a new Soviet missile, the SS-21, being deployed in Central Europe. Said a senior American official: "It's not all that terribly important." The White House pointedly made only a mild response to Soviet harassment of two Moscow correspondents for U.S. magazines, Robin Knight of U.S. News & World Report and Peter Hann of Business Week. Said a White House aide: "I can just picture some dumb flunky doing...
...same day the committee released its report, April 11, more than 300 students marched to the K-School calling for the naming of the public affairs library after Steven Biko...
Since his arrival in Moscow 2½ years ago, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Robin Knight has been regularly denounced by the official news agency Tass and a number of daily newspapers, especially for his articles on racism in the U.S.S.R. The weekly Soviet New Times called Knight "a boot-level journalist," and a Soviet journalism review included him in a "gallery of rogues...
...press," says Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson, a former Supreme Court law clerk. "He is convinced that the way he runs things is right, but when put in a critical light it unnerves him." ABC's O'Brien, 35, a lawyer who worked as a television reporter in New Orleans before joining the network two years ago, may have scored an unmistakable coup in revealing the two decisions, but some journalists wondered whether it was worth Tucci's job. Said a colleague on the Supreme Court beat: "O'Brien wasted a good source...
...admit to liking to read crime news but feel a little ashamed in doing so. They think their home town is better than the newspaper paints it. Talking to his own readers in Dayton, Editor Rosenfeld found them questioning the editor's self-righteous conviction that he only reports a world he never made: "Readers see us as moral vigilantes . . . the voice of asperity and sterile detachment." One answer to declining newspaper readership, Rosenfeld seems to suggest, is a more human tone, a sense of pity and understanding about the news an editor must report...