Word: schorr
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National Public Radio's Daniel Schorr told a crowded Forum last night that television journalism was dramatically altering the making of public policy in America...
...Schorr, a senior news analyst, was delivering the prestigious Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Having said that the press uses politicians and politicians use the press in a largely symbiotic way," Schorr said, "we come to a new stage--the stage in which TV itself as technology takes control out of the hands of press and policy makers alike...
Former President George Bush's dispatching of additional U.S. troops to Somalia last November and President Clinton's sending of humanitarian aid to Bosnia are examples of television shaping politicians' opinions, Schorr said...
...Schorr was also critical of the increasingly friendly relationship between his fellow journalists and public officials...