Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee discussion held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), audaciously termed a debate by the Harvard Political Union (News, Feb. 4). Amid the worn jokes and vacuous slogans, several people of more noble and gracious intent than me tried bravely to provoke an intelligent discussion of the budding scandal in Washington. Sadly, they were doomed by the near-comic choice of topic...
...Monica Lewinsky sex scandal has now clearly entered this second phase--the phase of media self-flagellation. There is always something strangely perverse about journalists filling newspapers, magazines and air time with comments about how the media is being diverted from more important concerns. A discussion about the insignificance of a story, it would seem, is even more insignificant than the insignificant story itself...
...problem in this case has not been the amount of attention given to the scandal. The problem is a lack of hard information and a climate of uninformed speculation. My own involvement in this story is testimony to what few sources the media really has to help them determine the relevant facts. Monica Lewinsky worked a few cubicles away from me in the basement of the Old Executive Office Building when we were both White House interns in the summer of 1995. For a month, we lived in the same apartment building, and on a couple of occasions she gave...
...choice--my decision to appear on the Montel Williams Show. I had never seen the show and was seriously misled by the producers about the nature of the show and my role on it. I was told I would be on the show to discuss the impact of the scandal from the perspective of a younger American. Instead, I was asked such questions as, "Did you ever see Monica grab the President's butt...
That some members of the media will be needlessly lewd is perhaps an inevitable component of any scandal, but that does not mean we should criticize the mainstream media for energetically investigating this story. They are doing their job, and for the most part doing it well. Their coverage will be more valuable when tangential people such as me are replaced with sources who can provide a much clearer sense of what really happened...