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...besides the press views its exclusion from Grenada as "a bad mistake"? Newspeople have become so smug, arrogant and manipulative that they overreact to any attempt to get balance into their reporting...
...Britain's Central Independent Television and France's Antenne 2. Assembled by a multinational team that focused on America but gained access to Communist Viet Nam, the 13-part report is fair and generally balanced. It speaks more in sorrow than in anger, without accusations or the smug wisdom of hindsight and with sensitivity to the tragedy of what started as a noble cause...
...cannot afford to get smug. Not all American victims are getting help, or even sympathy. "As a society," says Sociologist Gelles of private violence, "we laugh at this behavior." We should not. But indeed, such behavior is not so completely unthinkable that decent folks do not chuckle when Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden angrily threatens to sock his ever-loving wife. "I'm gonna send you to the moon," he barks on The Honeymooners, his clenched fist waving. "To the moon, Alice." But if people on the one hand laugh off private violence, they become raving, sputtering mad about...
...moment of self-realization; instead, the treatment just winds down haphazardly and stops. Worse, Rossner cannot seem to decide what kind of book she is writing. At moments she appears to strive for the heartfelt tone of Judith Guest in Ordinary People; a few sentences later she lurches into smug social satire reminiscent of Fran Lebowitz's Metropolitan Life...