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...First Amendment Center at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University and a former newspaper editor, says, "Given the loss of human life and the threat to human life, if the FBI gave [the name] to me, I would have gone with it. But I'd be weeping now." Not so Carl Stern, a former spokesman for the Department of Justice and correspondent for NBC who now teaches journalism at George Washington University. "All this journalistic hand-wringing is unnecessary," he says. "The System worked. There is no one in the U.S. who does not have a good picture of who Richard Jewell...
Only an unconventional candidate--he offered to pose for Playgirl if Howard Stern would help him raise $1 million for his campaign--would take on a Democratic incumbent in a district where the G.O.P. is outnumbered nearly 6 to 1. Kimble, an author of books on wolves, proposes a 10-year moratorium on immigration and a plan to exclude the first $10,000 of workers' salaries from taxation...
...confusing time. He talked and listened and talked some more. In the latest abc News poll, 73% of voters say having a caring President who "understands the problems of people" is more important than having a President with the "highest personal character." We have moved from the President as stern Father Knows Best to what Robert Bly in his book The Sibling Society suggests as the President as Older Brother, maybe a little wiser but not without familiar flaws...
DIED. HENRI NANNEN, 82, distinguished founder, editor and publisher of the popular German news magazine Stern; in Hanover, Germany. Nannen and Stern suffered a stunning embarrassment in 1983, when the magazine was duped into publishing a hoax, Hitler's "lost diaries...
...world. What has exploded is not news, but talk about the news; commentary, not information. Which makes the news explosion both more democratic and more suspect. Everyone from Kathie Lee Gifford to call-in viewers on Larry King Live has a viewpoint, and every viewpoint gets a hearing. Howard Stern may be as influential as Peter Jennings. MSNBC fills its airtime with a corps of interchangeable "contributors" who offer seat-of-the-pants opinions on whatever the big story of the day happens to be. It's cocktail party chat passing for journalism...