Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / You seem to be appalled by the apathy of the public, and even Congress, toward Watergate and seemingly feel it is, and was, your duty to beat and continue to beat it to death. You have not shown, and I doubt if you can ever show, anything more than what the public already feels: that Watergate was about as alarming as a group of small boys trying to steal green apples...
...Sir / If we people in the smaller cities had to rely on our (one only) morning paper, we would be skipping to the grocery store, wearing our rose-colored glasses, paying high prices on grain and dairy products without knowing why. Thanks to publications such as yours, the Washington Post, and national news coverage, we know...
...Sir / The definition of "newsman" is changing from "one who reports the news" to "one who makes the news...
...Sir / A survivor of "the old George Seldes-A.J. Liebling school" wishes to say that your cover story and Essay make up one of the fairest reviews of the journalistic situation he has read in the past 60 years. It is also one of the most alarming. The press deserved the attacks and criticisms of Will Irwin (1910) and Upton Sinclair (1920) and the muckrakers who followed, and it needs today the watchdog and gadfly activities of the new critical weeklies, but all in all it is now a better medium of mass information. It therefore deserves more public...
...Sir / Since there was no script and I have no copy of TV's 2,251 Days, it is impossible for me to verify what you quote as my opinion of the North Vietnamese: "petty, vindictive, mean little people ... an armed group of paranoid children" [July...