Word: mediaphobia
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...TODAY'S MEDIAPHOBIA is not limited to hostile statements by military officials. Many Americans find the press intrusive and annoying. The objections have their roots in the 1960s. The story goes something like this...
...with the Administration of Justice-a meeting of 275 legal leaders to explore deficiencies in the system of justice. The irony in the decision to give his first press conference is that Burger, on the one hand, tends to carry his sense of dignity almost to the point of mediaphobia, while on the other hand he has energetically lectured and lobbied for legal reforms that he believes are needed. In the process, Burger has become the most active Chief Justice off the bench since William Howard Taft shamelessly hustled the White House and Congress in the 1920s for everything from...