Word: shipler
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Dressed in a crisp white shirt and pressed Levis, he strode purposefully into the freshly whitewashed chamber at Nevada State Prison, near Carson City. "He looked as if he were ready to go to a disco," recalls TIME's Guy Shipler, one of 14 official witnesses. The man was then strapped into a metal chair, a long stethoscope tube poking out from his collar and snaking through a wall socket into a side room, where a doctor waited to monitor his heartbeat. At 12:14 a.m., a capsule of cyanide gas tumbled down a tube and plopped into...
Even the Times's background round-ups--often the most interesting thing in the paper--often grow out of such unexamined biases. This summer, for example, the Times gave prominent play to a three-part series on South Vietnam by David K. Shipler. The series contained considerable information--most of it at least a year or two old--on the torture that is commonplace in the Saigon government's political prisons. Shipler laid great stress on the fact that many of those tortured are not communists, and in general the moral of the series appeared to be that the United...
...continuity of oppressiveness among all the governments fighting the National Liberation Front hardly entered into Shipler's articles, though it certainly seems to suggest that the oppressiveness has roots deeper than General Thieu's personal idiosyncracies--roots in popular support for the NLF, for example. Like Ford's policy pronouncements, and unlike the articles of the Times's other Vietnam reporter, James M. Markham, Shipler's articles were based on an unconsidered assumption that the NLF couldn't possibly speak for the people of South Vietnam, and merits suppression by any means necessary. Working from this assumption, Shipler spends...
Indeed, the council has several weighty allegations of press unfairness on its docket. Among them: charges by Graham Martin, U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, that New York Times Reporter David Shipler had inserted "numerous inaccuracies and half-truths" in a story about U.S. assistance to Saigon (TIME, March 25); a complaint by a New York lawyer that public television's Black Journal had been one-sided in supporting the construction of black housing in a white Newark neighborhood...
...Shipler contends that his story was not written to dash these hopes: "I'm not an advocate of anything. It's a cliché, but the reporter's function is to observe and report. The story took shape only after a lot of legwork." Shipler also has his boss's support. When Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal arrived in Saigon for a visit last week, he declined Martin's offer of an interview...