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...pocket. The three big U.S. networks refuse to buy into his scheme, and he borrows money from friends. (He eventually creates a de facto network of independent stations to air the interviews.) Of the two reporters he hires to research Nixon, one, Bob Zelnick (large, puddingy Oliver Platt) is cynical of Frost's ability to bring the scheme off, and the other, James Reston, Jr. (bantam battler Sam Rockwell), rails against the host's apparent reluctance to focus on studying...
...intercourse among unmarried teenage women increased by two-thirds during the 1970s. Moreover, the sexual revolution seems to have moved from the college campus to the high school and now into the junior high and grade school.[*] A 1982 survey conducted by Johns Hopkins Researchers John Kantner and Melvin Zelnick found that nearly one out of five 15-year-old girls admitted that she had already had intercourse, as did nearly a third of 16-year-olds and 43% of 17-year-olds. "In the eyes of their peers, it is important for kids to be sexually active...
There are some who argue that because of the story's potential to harm the U.S. abroad, Newsweek should not have published it, even if it were true. Robert Zelnick, chairman of Boston University's journalism department and a former Pentagon correspondent for ABC News, draws a distinction between Abu Ghraib, where there was a systematic pattern of prisoner abuse, and the allegation of an isolated act of Koran desecration at Guantánamo, however deplorable. "In this case," he says, "I think the potential for mischief was so great and the journalistic value of the information so small that...
...Zelnick acknowledges that that's a minority view in the news business. What most journalists are trying to take away from the debacle is a clearer sense of how best to report the news. It appears that some lessons, basic as they might be, need to be relearned. As a chastened Whitaker told TIME, "You have to be prepared to defend the accuracy of everything that appears in the magazine--no matter how short." --With reporting by Sean Gregory and Barbara Kiviat/New York and John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...former chief of BMG Entertainment, Zelnick, 45, has turned his energies to cycling. In a bid to make the sport as popular in the U.S. as in Europe, his firm, ZelnickMedia, purchased a stake in Threshold, which produces international races. Threshold's first New York City race, in early August, will feature Lance Armstrong...