Word: mongering
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Kahane's success in garnering headlines is a case-study in pre-packaged controversy. Every hate-monger carries a briefcase full of stock accusations, violent rhetoric and incendiary tactics. His first task is to find new situations to unleash his verbal barrage. Creating a pretense, however, is necessary but not sufficient. He must also convince people in the media that the alleged provocation and his resulting fury are worthy of coverage...
...down. The loss a city suffers when it becomes a one-newspaper town cannot be expressed too often. Nothing improves an editor's diligence and a reporter's aggressiveness more than the eternal dread of being scooped. That fear abates, to be sure, when the competition is a scandal-monger or a cult mouthpiece. But if competition vanishes altogether, the surviving newspaper is left with all the incentive to excel of a student in a one-on-one course graded on a curve...
Nacht: The whole Brezhnev posture is probably playing toward concerns of Americans and Europeans that there is a threat of nuclear war. He wants very much to posture his government on the correct side, the peaceful side, and Reagan as the war monger. I think he's done a quite effective job at that...
...worked, though The Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby, an associate would lecture to passers by while scrawling compiles and incomprehensible theological diagrams...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During...