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Answer: The objectivity of the national press goes right out the window. Or at least it does if the way the press has handled the Daniloff case and more recently the resignation of State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb are any indication...
From the moment Nicholas S. Daniloff '56, the Moscow correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, was arrested by the Soviet Union on charges of espionage, the national press was on his side. Major news organizations, which are normally skeptical of our government's explanations, seemed all too willing to believe that Daniloff was not a spy, but rather a brave reporter who had been set up by the Soviets...
...fact, it only took one day for the Washington Post to run as its lead editorial an admonition to the American public to avoid falling into the trap of questioning whether Daniloff was a spy or not. Not only was the Post unwilling to question Daniloff's involvement with the CIA, it came close to asserting that anyone who did make such an inquiry was unpatriotic...
...SEEMS reasonable to ask whether the Post would have been as confident of Daniloff's innocence had he not been a journalist. Suppose for instance he was a businessman, or an American student studying in Moscow--wouldn't have someone in the press have done a serious investigation into whether or not Daniloff...
...Today show for his lack of progress on arms control. So as the two Mr. Presidents toured the complex of four circular structures, television correspondents yelled baited questions about Carter's criticism and about whether Reagan had "caved in" to the Soviet Union to secure the release of Nicholas Daniloff. Reagan, in his inimitable style, deflected the question about the Today show by telling NBC's Chris Wallace, "I wasn't watching television." Carter, with a smile, told ABC's Sam Donaldson and the others, "Your questions make me very glad to be a former President...