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...presented an article dealing in depth with how the media tend to minimize or ignore the seriousness of recent mass anti-militarism activities Spiegelman notes, for example, that press accounts of the nuclear freezer rally in New York last June focused on the trivial aspects of the gathering. "The mainstream broadcast media presented the huge rally in a relentlessly upbeat mood. Their unmodulated celebration of the rally's size and good behavior smothered and obliterated the urgency and terror that brought so many together...
Leaders of the disarmament movement must recognize the mainstream media as the enormous obstacle they have become, or progress against militarism will be slow, uncertain and ultimately doomed to failure. Unless the institutionalized biases of the press end, the freeze and disarmament proponents will continue to find themselves grappling with the ghostly, subtle power of omission and distortion...
...more straightforward level, the mainstream media enjoy uncomfortably close links to the military establishment. Leslie Gelb became to the New York Times national security correspondent after serving in the Pentagon during the Johnson Administration, he left the paper to occupy a high national security position for President Carter and was replaced by reporter Richard Burt, who now serves as Director of Political Military Affairs in the Reagan State Department...
...quiet and unassuming professional life, however, his conservative views were largely ignored by academia's numerous Keynesian-oriented economists. But as often happens with original ideas, Stigler's seminal studies on the interplay between politics and economics have in recent years come more and more into the mainstream...
...criticism both now and in the past. The boycott, with which Kenyatta has been closely identified, has been widely censured by students and the national press. His protest candidacy in the Philadelphia Mayoral primary drew criticisms from other Black leaders in the city, most of whom supported a mainstream liberal candidate...