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Trends in American society threaten the role of the journalist as "an honest broker of information," CBS news correspondent Dan Rather told 600 people in the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School last night...
Recent Supreme Court decisions, public suspicion, and the tendency among television broadcasters to "go for the pretty face" all threaten good reporting, Rather said...
Rather cited the recent Supreme Court ruling against "60 Minutes" as one in a series of decisions that threaten the First Amendment. The decision ruled that a court can order a reporter to disclose what goes on in his mind during the "reporting process" of a story...
...riveting days, the nation-and the world-watched a gas bubble build up in a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., and threaten to cause a hydrogen gas explosion that would spew radiation into the atmosphere. When the bubble finally disappeared and the danger subsided, deep relief was mingled with grave concern about the nuclear future...
...nuclear power's role cannot be eliminated without dire consequences. In some areas-New England, around Chicago, parts of the Southeast-atomic plants supply about half of all electricity. Shutting them would lead to blackouts and brownouts that would gravely threaten public health and safety. Electricity bills would soar, cruelly pinching low-income homeowners, as utilities were compelled to turn to higher-cost sources of energy. Some power companies would be forced to buy still more foreign oil at prices of up to $20 a barrel, fanning inflation, weakening the dollar and tying the U.S. energy future yet more...