Word: wicker
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...press has a duty to "heighten the level of public discourse" but should not be held captive to it, according to former New York Times columnist Tom Wicker...
Speaking to a group of about 40 at the Institute of Politics, Wicker yesterday discussed the role of the press in society and politics...
...Wicker predicted that television, by constantly exposing the nation to its president, will lead to voter boredom and one-term presidencies...
...agree that we have the power to shape television as we wish, because it also shapes us," said Tom Wicker of The New York Times...
...King Henry VII of England awarded explorer John Cabot (pounds)10 for finding "the new isle," and Newfoundland it has been ever since. Legend has Cabot's men lowering wicker baskets into the teeming Atlantic and bringing them up laden with cod. For more than 400 years the hardy Newfoundlanders who settled "the Rock" competed vigorously with Europeans in the rich fishery that developed. Too vigorously: the cod supply has been so depleted that Canadian fishermen were forced last week to haul in their nets, traps and boats along the entire northeastern coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to begin...