Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joshua A. Kaufman's recent anti-Peninsula diatribe was both infantile and inaccurate. He conveniently omitted any reference to the initial paragraphs of the piece which make clear to the reader that the "Enemies List" was inspired by the Filegate scandal. Apparently, the humorless columnist believes that I actually want to line these folks up against a wall and send them to their eternal reward. If he's that dense, I wonder if I should even bother to rebut the rest of his hateful manifesto...
...much a scandal as an imbroglio of incompetence--potentially of significance, but in fact, not. It's a comedy of errors and clowns of a lower order, and without any larger consequences. It's encouraging that everybody on all sides understands that privacy is a value that ought to be respected...
...press corps became supine under Reagan. It took a Lebanese newspaper to break the Iran-Contra scandal. The right-wingers who depicted themselves as journalists were allowed in in the Reagan era. Journalistic objectivity was cast as liberalism. A false polarization of objectivity versus conservatism was created, with each side having equivalent status. On the one hand, "This Week With David Brinkley" features Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, George Will, and then for balance Bill Kristol...
Blumenthal is correct that the American public is reacting against "the nadir of the coverage of politics," but does that mean that we can look forward to a day when we will no longer be bombarded with scandal after scandal? While Blumenthal seems to place most of the blame on the press, there is a public that sops up the drivel coming out of media outlets. Who is providing the scandals...
...administration has made blunders, but the reason nothing substantial has stuck to Clinton is that in terms of major policy scandals, he has stayed clean. Look no further than his popularity to convince you that America is not skeptical of Clinton's character. In this scandal-hungry and hypercritical America, winning a presidential election without having one's name smeared is virtually impossible. Many forces work to expose the personal lives of public officials in America today, including perhaps their own ethical breaches, but we should not provide a demand for the incessant barrage of overblown snafus we now face...