Word: restraint
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...never resist a chance to get in a lick at the press. About the Shah's fallen reputation, Nixon is dead right, but not simply because Khomeini manipulated the press: the Ayatullah has been able to take noisy advantage of a bizarre news brownout, a month of "self-restraint" unparalleled in American life. Johnny Carson confesses on TV that he is having a harder time with his opening monologues; Art Buchwald, who gets most of his humor columns out of topical events, hasn't done a single column about Iran. Even presidential candidates have been biting their tongues...
...consider it their business to generate one. That, to them, would be news manipulation. On any lively issue they expect counterarguments to surface normally in the news, and just this has been missing in the news programs from which most Americans get their information, under the brownout of self-restraint...
...done in the case of construction contracts. Moreover, they insisted, the size of the set-aside itself was arbitrary. "Why 10%?" asked one of the attorneys. "Why not 4%-the number of black contractors in the United States?" Fullilove himself is fearful about the lack of restraint on quota setting. A 10% set-aside might conceivably be tolerable, he says, but the problem is that "next time around it might...
That's the sort of perverse passion that motivates Deborah Davis's Katherine the Great. While other authors have at least waited until their respective targets were safely settled in their graves before knocking them off their pedestals, Davis spares no such restraint in her heedless rush to profit from the "sins" of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. Forget the tales about Graham risking the family newspaper to take on the house that Nixon built. From Davis's perspective, Watergate stemmed not from the dictates of journalistic integrity but from the arrogance of a woman piqued by a presidential spurning...
...from inducing restraint, however, the dispatch of the fleet triggered the worst verbal attacks yet. The demonstrators occupying the embassy boasted that they had wired explosives in all the rooms where the hostages were being held...