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...York Times columnist Tom Wicker said that the press has not been aggressive enough in attacking Reagan's record because they are "intimidated" by his success...
...press members too generally slip into covering official spokesmen without going behind what the spokesmen are saying," said Wicker. "Reporters who don't know what they're talking about rely on spokesmen who usually inform them self-servingly...
...play by a set of rules which the White House sets," said Wicker. But no matter how "self-serving" the official flow of information is, "the public would be losing out of information" if the press ignored...
...Congressional Office of Technology Assessment took an official look into the President's proposal and could barely restrain its bureaucratic laughter: "...the prospect for success of a space-based antimissile system is so remote that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy." Tom Wicker of the Times noted snidely that soon "people might get the idea the President doesn't know what he's talking about...
There was some welcome relief. Roger Mudd brought intelligence to the NBC triumvirate. And Brinkley managed to seem as sharp and wry at ABC as he once was at NBC. ABC also scored with George Will and Tom Wicker, if only because both seemed so visibly confused by Walters' words...