Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Carter can be thanked -if that is the word-for Iowa's- prominence. Nobody paid much attention to the state's early and unusual caucus system until Jimmy Who? decided to blitz the state in 1976 and thus get a jump on his opponents. The press, awakened to this event perhaps by Carter himself, proclaimed the Georgian's Iowa results a surprising victory, and a bandwagon started rolling. Actually, Carter did not win the Iowa caucuses four years ago at all: "Uncommitted" did. Carter got 29.1% of the delegates, Senator Birch Bayh 11.4%, former Senator Fred...
Though Carter is unwilling to leave the White House to barnstorm the state 1976-style, he is much better organized in Iowa than he was four years ago. His campaign has about 30 full-time paid operators and some degree of organization in each of the 99 counties. His Des Moines headquarters, which was a mere storefront in 1976, now occupies an entire floor of the same building. A phone bank is constantly buzzing with calls to supporters...
...credit tests can make a down payment, take home a new Chrysler vehicle for 30 days and, if not fully satisfied, return it. He will then get back his down payment, the cash value of any used car that he might have traded in, plus any fees that he paid for the title...
Reporters at the Enquirer are generously paid: some start at $35,000, and the paper's 5,000 part-time correspondents receive up to $500 for a cover tip and $1,000 for a cover photo. In return, they are expected to bring in stories that other journalists cannot or will not touch. Says Sue Reilly, a PEOPLE magazine reporter in Los Angeles who worked four months at the Enquirer: "When I told them I wouldn't stake out Ali MacGraw's kid's school for a story, an editor told me, 'We bought...
...Warren Beatty in late 1978, hoping to find out if he planned to marry Diane Keaton. (He was not fooled and refused to answer her questions.) More invidious are the payoffs that have long been a part of gossip journalism. Typically, a bartender or maitre d' will be paid $25 to $50 for a story tip, and a publicity agent or someone else in the know will get a couple of hundred dollars for confirmation. Says Paul Corkery, a former Enquirer reporter and now an editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner: "One thing I liked is that...