Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...column on New York's city hall (accumulating grist for his 1965 novel, The Mayor of New York), then moved to Washington to cover the Pentagon and national politics. When the Trib, with Barrett on the story, was among the few papers to expose the Billie Sol Estes scandal, President Kennedy angrily canceled his subscription. He felt that the Herald Tribune, a Republican paper, was giving undue coverage to a Democratic scandal. "Covering public affairs at all levels," recalls Barrett, "I saw myself as kind of an honest cop trying to keep public officials straight...
...Herstatt scandal also exposed a dubious aspect of the German banking system, one of the least regulated in Europe. In recent years, many German banks have been speculating heavily in currency, gold, real estate and commodities. For more than a year, other European bankers have been voicing worry about the size of the risks. Now, more Herstatt cases are expected...
Virtually every turn in Watergate and the related cases produces new controversy about journalism's role. Henry Kissinger's connection with wiretapping in 1969-71 is a minor aspect of the overall scandal, and the press did little to explore it until last month, when congressional leaks prompted several stories (TIME, June 24). But the Secretary's dramatic threat to resign put reporters on the defensive. Many congressional leaders hurtled to Kissinger's side. Barry Goldwater charged the press with "incessant nitpicking" and accused the Washington Post of "treason" for publishing a confidential FBI document...
...Watergate scandal, while the Administration was in its see-no-evil stage, newsmen who suspected that monstrous wrongdoing had occurred were justified in getting information as best they could. It was sometimes argued that a leak from a committee or an investigation merely got out news a little earlier than it would have been published anyway; but it is also possible that without publicity, the outcome of the proceedings would have been different and the facts would never have been disclosed. That justification, however, diminished as the official inquiry became more vigorous. Joseph Kraft and others have argued that after...
There is no more pugnacious Watergate warrior than Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who insists that Nixon has only himself to blame for his troubles. Yet Bradlee owns that the press is emerging from the scandal with a "black eye." The volume and complexity of the material, he says, have "made public digestion impossible." He also feels that newsmen generally