Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to contend that reporters should behave simply as vacuums, Hoovering about the halls of power after random crumbs. A story without a focus--be it the filth of the meatpacking industry, the sinister evil of Joe McCarthy, the links between political espionage and government officials--does not deserve to be called reporting. It is repeating what others have told, even if what they have said is pointless or silly. At best it is crude history ("History on the run," Woodward called it during his Harvard appearance), but historians too usually look for a way to focus their work...