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Gold shares Agnew's view that the press is too liberal. Where he differs from the Vice President is in his day-to-day dealings with newspapermen. His theory is that obstructionism is self-defeating. "Even if the Vice President is criticizing the press," he notes, "the only way to get it out to the people is to make it available to the press...
...pose the question.) There are a sprinkling of established writers-critic John Simon (of Andrew Sarris Fame); novelist Julian Moynihan ( Pairing Off ); screenwriter Frank Pierson ( Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke ); psychiatrist Willard Gaylin ( In The Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison )-and a number of veteran newspapermen (two from the Christian Science Monitor others from the Boston Herald and the Globe ), but, again, there are also an equal number representing the field of corporate journalism, working for Time/Life and Newsweek -including, of course, Osborn Elliott, Newsweek editor-in-chief and chief marshal for Commencement...
...White House conference, delegates saw a film about a highly successful program set up by Bronfenbrenner's colleague, David Goslin, of the Russell Sage Foundation. It showed children from the Detroit public-school system spending three days at the Detroit Free Press, learning to relate to the newspapermen and what they were doing, and saying things like "You know, in school you learn a subject, but here you meet people...
...newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell," said Wilbur F. Storey regarding the aims of the Chicago Times in 1861. Storey was talking in a day when newspapermen would not hesitate a minute to lambast the Establishment. Today's large-circulation papers tend to be part of the Establishment. San Francisco's Examiner and Chronicle, for instance, are so comfortably settled that the Bay City has become one of the worst-newspapered cities in America...
...pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses. But it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East. When Richard Nixon dubbed them the "crazies" of the Arab world during a recent briefing for Midwestern newspapermen, it was one of those rare assessments with which both Israeli and Arab leaders could agree...