Word: legwork
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Post's Haynes Johnson blames himself and his press colleagues for basing so much coverage on polls, then writing learned analysis claiming to know what was on people's minds. Wrote Johnson: "As it turns out, reporters would have been better served by relying on their own legwork, which in turn produces their own political instincts...
...summer and found that a few conservation measures could cut energy consumption by 20 per cent in just one year. And Gerrity says that over in Byerly Hall, one man--Paul Morvay, assistant to the director of financial aid--underspent his budget by $700,000 simply by doing the legwork necessary to unearth obscure sources...
...likely, Woodward and Armstrong don't mean everything they say about journalistic blindness. Perhaps they faced a more immediate problem--under contract to write a book, they produced it, realizing that it really contained little in the way of significant revelations. It is easy to praise them for their legwork and interviewing skill, easy to praise their book as interesting, readable and as good an account as exists of the way the Supreme Court operates...