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Journalists must shed their "pretense of neutrality" and become more political in their reporting, Robert Scheer, the reporter who interviewed President-elect Carter for Playboy magazine, said last night during a panel discussion at the Science Center...
...favors granted to guest journalists. Hoping to reach the sizable but apathetic young audience, Carter talked lengthily to Rolling Stone's self-centered Hunter S. Thompson (who neglected to quote Jimmy), to Norman Mailer (Carter said a four-letter word) and to Playboy's Robert Scheer, a self-styled "aggressive Berkeley radical." The delayed effects of these interviews increased Carter's wariness with the press...
...more serious question-why Carter felt obliged to bare more than anyone needs to know about what goes on in his mind and heart-puzzled even his supporters. So did the fact that he spent more time with Scheer, a former editor of the left-leaning Ramparts magazine (who had previously done a Playboy interview with California Governor Jerry Brown that had impressed the Carter camp) than with any other journalist. As Columnist Mary McGrory suggested, the conversation "should have been off the record with God, not one taped with Playboy...
...Equally ignored was the startling revelation by Carter's campaign manager, Hamilton Jordan, in a companion Playboy article by Scheer, that two top foreign policy advisers to Carter are not being considered for major appointments if the Democrat wins in November. Jordan is quoted as saying: "If after the Inauguration you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit. But that's not going to happen. You're going to see new faces, new ideas. The Government...
Like other journalists traveling aboard Peanut One, NBC Correspondent Judy Woodruff had known for months about Jimmy Carter's interview with Playboy. But until Interviewer Robert Scheer spelled out details for her two weeks ago, she had no idea of its contents. As soon as she spotted Carter's somewhat vivid language, she got word to Today show Host Tom Brokaw, who broke the story Monday morning...