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Racial Policy. Hereford's troubles began after he became president in September 1974. Unlike his predecessor, Edgar F. Shannon Jr., Hereford refused demands that he renounce his Farmington membership. An internationally known physicist and longtime Virginia professor, Hereford is by no means a racist. By staying in the club and lobbying for admission of blacks, he insisted, he could do more good than by resigning. His argument: "A change in Farmington would help to change the setting in which the university exists. This isn't an ideal community for blacks, but I'm trying to make...
Typical was a piece by William V. Shannon, an editor of the N.Y. Times, which is owned by the Jew, Sulzberger...
Tuesday night Martin Agronsky, another Jew, picked up the Shannon column on his nightly news panel over the Public Broadcasting System-N.H. channel 11. Agronsky quoted some of the most obnoxious allegations by Shannon. However the host of the panel was nonplussed. Both his panelists, though non-Jews, revealed themselves as long time and continuing friends and admirers of the Jew, Kissinger...
Suspicion Rampant. Yet how much is too much? "To try to avoid agitating other disordered minds," suggested the Times's William Shannon, "the media could withhold photographs of the would-be assassins and play down detailed coverage of their lives." Few editors would accept the notion of such self-censorship. Once it became known that editors and reporters were suppressing or playing down stories for whatever reasons, suspicion would be rampant. Says Norman E. Isaacs, publisher of the Wilmington, Del., News and Journal and editor-in-residence at the Columbia University School of Journalism: "The amount of rumor would...
Moreover, when journalists begin substituting other considerations for their own honest news judgment, it is impossible to know where to stop: they open themselves to all sorts of pressures, both from Government and private groups. Warned Shannon's colleague William Safire: "The news has its own free market, and if editors put their notions of the public interest ahead of their responsibility to satisfy the public's interest, a vital freedom would be lost." Most of their peers would see no irreconcilable conflict between freedom and responsibility. Says Norman Isaacs: "There must be a sense of discretion...