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...Many journalists hoped the case would simply go away; the prospect of juries setting limits on the work practices of reporters was a newsroom nightmare. But last week the Supreme Court decided otherwise. It unanimously overturned the decision of a federal court and ruled that the discomforting case of journalist Janet Malcolm, accused of libeling her subject by fabricating his quotes, should go to trial. Nevertheless, the reaction from most reporters, though hardly unanimous, tended toward a collective sigh of relief that the decision showed a subtle sensitivity to their craft...
...journalists, Morrow began writing for TIME two years after graduating with a degree in English from Harvard. "A magazine is a living thing," he says, "and it lives on ideas. It turns facts into ideas, entertainments, moral positions." But that doesn't mean a pre-eminent magazine journalist need be stuffy and serious. "To think that he's a no- nonsense guy is nonsense," says his colleague Paul Gray. "When suitably amused, he has an explosive laugh that could shudder a sycamore at 60 paces." Ideas, Morrow believes, are like people: "Some are charming, some are noble, some are ugly...
...Carls has made the most of her Harvard career inside and outside the classroom--as a journalist, piano teacher, and thesis-writer. And next year, she plans to take on the topsy-turvy world of rock and roll...
...believe those who hold public office are held to a higher ethical standard than those in other professions. That is as it should be. However, other professions do have codes of ethics. There is almost unanimity on certain basic values, which are enduring, whether you are a journalist or in the business world...
...defends the use of physical force, but when the coercion involved is purely psychological, it becomes hard to assign blame after the fact. Journalist Stephanie Gutmann is an ardent foe of what she calls the date-rape dogmatists. "How can you make sex completely politically correct and completely safe?" she asks. "What a horribly bland, unerotic thing that would be! Sex is, by nature, a risky endeavor, emotionally. And desire is a violent emotion. These people in the date-rape movement have erected so many rules and regulations that I don't know how people can have erotic or desire...