Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation's major networks and newspapers were forced to follow the tabloids' lead, pursuing a story they felt uneasy with, unearthed by a publication many regard with disdain. They were wary, not just of the story's source and tawdry sexual details but of its timing. The Star's scoop was first made public on the very day of President Clinton's acceptance speech, in a front-page story in the New York Post, a newspaper owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (Murdoch once owned the Star too, but he sold it in 1990 to the company that also...
Once he had them, Gooding called Morris last Tuesday for comment (Morris hung up on him once and did not respond to several messages) and prepared to run the story. But five days before the issue was scheduled to hit the newsstands, the Star offered its scoop to several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. Only the New York Post went for it. Releasing it to other papers before its actual publication, Bunton insists, was simply an effort to protect the Star's scoop after Morris had been alerted to the story. Said Bunton: "The White...
Dick Morris' brain was in orbit. It was late July, and the President's political consultant--the co-author of his campaign message and advertising, the strategist who helped Clinton scoop up Republican issues and ideas on his way to a double-digit lead over Bob Dole--was returning again and again to a problem he thought might hurt Clinton's re-election. Not welfare reform, because Morris had already won that fight, but taxes. Clinton had promised a middle-class tax cut in 1992 but delivered a tax increase on the wealthy instead. Now Dole was getting ready...
...goes well with these flights, as many as four more pairs will follow at two-year intervals beginning in December 1998. Though the second lander will not be as mobile as Pathfinder, it will have an improved stereoscopic camera and a robotic shovel, allowing it to scoop up soil and conduct more detailed studies of its chemical composition. Unfortunately, none of these ships is designed to test for what captured the world's imagination last week: Martian life...
...BENTLEY was one of only a handful of insiders who knew what was coming when Bob Dole announced his surprise resignation from the Senate last week. Any other photojournalist would have regarded this scoop as an incredible stroke of luck. In this case, luck had nothing to do with it. Over the past few months Bentley, one of America's most accomplished campaign photographers, has been at Dole's side during most of the candidate's waking hours, as he was with Clinton during the last campaign. This extraordinary access comes partly because Bentley never gets in the way, partly...