Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...axis is hardly unanimous. During much of the Viet Nam War, there were significant editorial differences. In 1972 the Times supported George McGovern while Time Inc. endorsed Nixon. Among Times columnists last year, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis were more critical of Spiro Agnew than their colleague James Reston was. Further, the liberals?however that term is defined?hardly have a news monopoly, even in New York and Washington. U.S. News & World Report generally takes a conservative line, and the Washington Star-News is to the Post's right. New York is the editorial home of the Wall Street Journal...
Behind the Lines. NET's weekly probe of the American press. Tonight: How ethical are newspaper and TV reporters and editors? Should they accept free junkets from those they cover? Endorse commercial products? Take public stands on political issues? Interviews with Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury, and Tom Wicker. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post. The New York Times's Tom Wicker used the misquotation in the lead of his Tuesday column. Rued Wicker: "It didn't occur to me that the Washington Post would be wrong." As for the Post, Managing Editor Howard Simons had a sadly candid comment: "All of our failsafe systems just failed...
Lasting just 62 minutes, unobtrusively narrated by New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the film takes its title from Stone's newsletter, which was written, edited, proofed and published by Stone for 19 years. In December 1971, having reached the age of 64, Stone closed the last issue. Bruck ends his film with Stone saying goodbye to his printers -a sequence of rushed, embarrassed feeling-and a sort of postlude in which Stone gleefully admits something that has been obvious all along: "I really have so much fun I ought to be arrested...
...YORK TIMES COLUMNIST TOM WICKER: The clamor for Richard Nixon's resignation is suddenly so deafening that it may drown out good sense and overwhelm due process. It risks a rush to decision rather than an exercise of judgment, and it proposes a constitutional short cut when the primary problem is that the Constitution already has been too often slighted or ignored...