Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigative reporting prizes were presented by Tom Wicker, columnist emeritus of The New York Times. "Investigative reporting represents individual enterprise in a craft that is moving inexorably towards mass effort," Wicker said...
While "the rush to be first still governs newspapers," Wicker said, journalists "should be concentrating on why [the news] happened, what it means, and perhaps what will happen in the future...
...although the idea has been "sold very successfully to the public," Wicker said the press does not have a liberal bias...
...Wicker, who is a fellow this semester at the Kennedy School's Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, said, "the ideas that the American press is one big instrument that is liberal is not true." He said there are more important problems facing journalists today, including gender and race bias and the trend towards sensationalism...
...Commenting on the "dirty little secret" of journalism, Wicker acknowledged that journalists can sometimes become too involved with their sources...