Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows I have been most democratic all the wars of our times." Sharon said that "the most democratic country did not hesitate to kill hundreds of thousands at Hiroshima. " After several more such combative interchanges, Sharon said: "Miss Fallaci! You are a very nice slander! and I don't want to lose my temper, but I never heard such slander! Such a lie! Such an insult!" Perhaps both counted on their dramatic exchanges' making the front page of the Washington Post, which they...
...since Mao Tse-tung's China broke with Moscow in 1960 had the Communist world been rocked by such a bitter and open feud. To Soviet accusations of "slander" and "sacrilege," the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) last week responded with charges that the Kremlin was "authoritarian," "erratic" and bent on the "mortification of national sentiments and sovereignty." By week's end many observers believed that a complete break between the two parties might ensue...
Pravda charged that "the leaders of the P.C.I. speak of aspirations to struggle for peace, but at the same time they slander the principal, fundamental force in this struggle: the U.S.S.R. and its socialist allies." The PC.I.'s "position against world socialism," said the article, was "an aid to imperialism, to anti-Communism and to all forces hostile to social progress...
Bayley's narrative spotlights McCarthy's four years at the fore-front of American politics. It begins with newspaper coverage of McCarthy's infamous 1950 speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Where McCarthy started his campaign of slander by stating that more than 200 known card-carrying Communists filled posts in the State Department. Bayley ends his account with the coverage of the "Army-McCarthy hearings," where McCarthy saw his public image crippled, precipitating his censure by the Senate. These four years saw certain newspapers carrying over 15 stories a day featuring McCarthy. Dredging up every sort of reporting...
...Press maintains that the American news media have improved since the 1950s. McCarthy's manipulations showed that reporting only what was said to the press and not what might have been the truth often led to bias and misinterpretation. Newspapers are no longer so vulnerable to sensationalizing slander, Bayley says. Thorough and effective news analysis no longer gets relegated to the editorial pages. The popularity of televised news has left investigative reporting as the "meat and potatoes" of print journalism. Increased staffs and decreased competition have allowed newspapers greater opportunity for research and more discretion about what, and when...