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Journalists must be ever mindful of the mousetrap. They must make sure that personal preferences do not lead them into unquestioning acceptance or rejection of a candidate's political views. Last week, mousetrapped by George McGovern, whom he admires, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker performed a manful act. He chastised McGovern and apologized for allowing himself-and his readers-to be misled...
...issue was McGovern's complicated and controversial proposals for changing the welfare system and redistributing income. In preparation for his June 4 column, Wicker spoke to McGovern aides and received from them a seven-page explanation of the program's arithmetic. The resulting article was plainly sympathetic to McGovern's approach. But specifics of the plan have been so seriously questioned by experts (TIME, June 26) that McGovern has waffled on the subject...
Last week Wicker laid out some of the questionable points in the McGovern math, which he said had been "accepted far too uncritically, with the result that the McGovern income program was made, in this column, to seem more practical and carefully worked out than it is." By implication, he admitted that like any professional, he should have double-checked the figures with disinterested experts. Wicker continues to support McGovern's general ideas about sharing the wealth, but declined to take himself-or the candidate-off the hook. What matters, he said, "is that expert economic analysis so impugns...
Hannah Arendt, LL.D., author. Kingman Brewster Jr., LL.D., president of Yale University. Thomas G. Wicker, LL.D., journalist...
...Mayor John Lindsay: "The insane attack upon George Wallace is yet another terrible and inevitable example of the violence of our nation. From the needless neglect of our most pressing national needs, we have reaped a harvest of division, despair and death." In his New York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines outside theaters showing The Godfather" The blasts from overseas were even more extravagant than usual. Said Milan's Corriere della Sera: "The U.S. is built on a structure...