Word: sawyerism
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...know for certain whether Juan Miguel was reading from a script, speaking from the heart--or both. But anyone who heard his passionate demand to be reunited with Elian, and his denunciation of the Miami relatives who had paraded his son in the streets and fed him to Diane Sawyer, had to believe he might be entirely sincere in his desire simply to retrieve his child and go home to Cuba for good. As Democratic Congressman Jose Serrano quoted Juan Miguel asking, "What do I have to do to prove that I love my child...
...their part, the Miami relatives with whom Elian is staying, desperate to win over the national sentiment that has been against them since this drama began, let ABC's Diane Sawyer interview the boy. At one point, the cameras captured him shyly wondering whether his mother was still alive and had forgotten about him. That, says a child psychiatrist who had been approached earlier by the Miami relatives to evaluate Elian, indicated that the boy "has not...started the grieving process...
...America's media culture inevitably made Elian Gonzalez the most sought-after interview since Monica Lewinsky. But the fact that the distant relatives who are trying to keep the six-year-old in Miami against the wishes of his father gave the go-ahead for ABC's Diane Sawyer spend two days with him late last week - the first installment of her interview was broadcast Monday - may be a sign of desperation. The Miami relatives had long resisted the temptation, knowing full well how badly Middle America might judge their forcing a bereaved and confused child to share his pain...
...lived five minutes from Stanford University," Zellner-Sawyer continued. "My dad was a lecturer there. That shouldn't make a difference, but maybe it does to the people reading this...
Alderman said she felt the impact of Zellner-Sawyer's story...