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Columnist James Reston of the New York Times led the chorus of criticism: "Isn't this a dangerous precedent? ... If CBS will pay this kind of money for Mr. Haldeman, won't other big shots or notorious characters demand their price...
...Rosenthal, managing editor of the New York Times, calls CBS's "memoir" theory invalid. "They will be presenting this as a news program ... So how do they distinguish between this and an interview with the Shah of Iran?" Reasons Reston: "The danger is that the flow of much important information will be commercialized, and the public will be left with the best interviews money...
...found its way into the democratic consensus." That newspapers are written for the general public, not presidents and other policymaking officials, didn't bother Rovere, any more than his picture of a "democratic consensus" arrived at by presidents and other policymaking officials, not the general public, seems to. James Reston, The New York Time ex-vice-president who's sometimes regarded as a disciple of Lippmann, carries Lippmann's concern for presidents and other policymaking officials and comparative lack of concern for his ostensible job, reporting news to the public, further than Lippmann--for example, it led him to suppress...
...group of workers doing a job like everyone else--suggests the inadequacies of his own journalism: its elitism, its detachment, its effort to teach people a philosophy not inherent in their lives instead of to let them know what is going on around them. And the praise people like Reston lavished on Lippmann for precisely these qualities--in preference to such things as the ingrained skepticism that kept Lippmann an opponent of McCarthyism or the Vietnam War--speaks sadly, but eloquently, for the state of the American press...
...Reeves thesis mystifying. "What shortcomings don't we report? We make every joke in the book at Jerry Ford's expense. We report all his clumsy, well-meaning activities. Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post, who had defended the Nixon...