Word: reporter
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Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...
...commission recommends that the next President hold a minimum of two daytime press conferences a month plus six evening sessions a year. Dukakis embraced that formula; Bush refused to commit himself. However, as the report points out, most modern Presidents, including Reagan, promised to be more accessible to reporters, only to retreat as their terms wore on. Former NBC News correspondent Marvin Kalb, director of the Barone Center, is convinced that politicians cannot be truly successful without being open to the press. But his experience as a reporter forces him to admit that they can avoid the press with little...
...fraud. Through subsequent centuries the church refused to confirm its authenticity. The examination that finally discredited the shroud was conducted with the full blessing of the church, in an unusual alliance between honest faith and objective science. When Pope John Paul was informed of the negative report two weeks ago, he ordered, "Publish...
Moro instructed the agent to limit the size of his deposits to amounts smaller than $10,000. This laundering ploy enables criminals to evade laws that require banks to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more to the Federal Government. Checks drawn against those funds were deposited in banks around the world by Moro's staff...
...paid for all the finery, the First Lady would, of course, have no need to report her purchases. Elaine Crispen, Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, said last week that the First Lady told her she has bought all the clothes she has worn since early 1982. Mrs. Reagan also told Crispen that since then she has not borrowed or been given any dresses...