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...Wicker, associate editor of The New York Times, said the early years of the Vietnam war were a low point in the history of reporting...
...press has relied almost entirely on official spokesmen who may have their own interests--interests in tapping the excitement of Watergate and interest in relieving the political pressures on Nixon," Wicker said...
...question and answer period at the end of the talk, Wicker explained that he thought Agnew was the "victim of a [White House] campaign of vilification...for reasons that are not clear to me, but are certainly not attractive...
...Wicker said the coverage of Watergate, on the other hand, has shown "the press at its best...
...with Watergate] the press has justified on a wide scale its reputation as a watchdog," Wicker said. "There has been no reliance on official spokesmen. The press has shown a great deal of imaginativeness and boldness--after a brief period of initial hesitation...