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...Milton Coleman admits to violating a confidence with Reverend Jackson--a confidence of the type that is common between reporters and political figures. His only defense--which shows that he knew he did something wrong--was that Jackson had allegedly made this remark among other Black reporters. However, on ABC's Nightline, one Black reporter, Kenneth Walker of ABC News, said that this "simply is not true...
...president of CBS News, criticized the Times for being "so goddam hard-nosed. I take the position that everyone has the right to look over my shoulder except the Government." But, Salant added, many of his network colleagues, including Walter Cronkite, did not share his keenness for a council. ABC refused to cooperate; NBC was unenthusiastic. Time Inc. had its doubts about the council; nonetheless the company's magazines cooperated in some of its inquiries...
...determined not to be unduly influenced by the press, and all fail to some degree. It is easy enough to remember, when one is greeting the voters in Indiana, that most Americans do not read the New York Times and the Washington Post or watch the evening news on ABC, CBS and NBC-or, for that matter, necessarily believe everything they read in newspapers and magazines or watch on television or hear on radio. This memory tends to become submerged once the campaign is won and the candidate takes up residence in Washington. Then the capital, with its curious mixture...
...magazine. With the insouciant hyperbole for which that publication is famous, the caption read "Taking Command." Inside, under a bold line reading "The 'Vicar' Takes Charge," the editors devoted several pages of snare-drum prose to an account of my life and a description of the Reagan foreign policy. ABC reported: "The sight of Alexander Haig taking command on the cover of TIME magazine was more than some of the President's aides could take, and since its publication there have been several obvious White House putdowns ... The problem seems to be that some of Mr. Reagan's closest advisers...
...dealings with international leaders." About Watergate, the former President said, "It . . . was wrong, stupidly handled." He added, "I should have destroyed the tapes." The Nixon footage was turned down by NBC News President Reuven Frank, who judged it to be "not sufficiently new," and by ABC News, which apparently objected to the fact that Nixon was interviewed by a public relations aide. Some newspaper editors also questioned the arrangement. But Editor Spencer Klaw of the Columbia Journalism Review said, "It is hard to see how this differs from the common practice of newspapers and magazines to run excerpts of books...