Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcome change is provided in a new book by Thomas Griffith, How True: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News.* With witty epigrams and cogent commentary, Griffith avoids knee-jerk assaults on both the press and its critics. Rather he wants his readers to understand what journalism is and is not-and why. He points out that publications are often trapped by their own style and history ("The last time an editor is a free spirit is the day he puts to press volume one, number one"). Publishing economics is an ever larger concern ("Somewhere in the background...
...quote Magician Charles Reynolds as saying. "When evaluating the research, we have found that the researcher's will to believe is all powerful." To be fair, you should also have cited the skeptic's will to disbelieve...
...former Bond Trader William Simon, Church got his start on Wall Street, first as a correspondent and later as a front-page editor for the Wall Street Journal (which is singled out in this week's Press section as one of the ten best newspapers in America). No skeptic about the reality of the energy crunch, Church had a lengthy debate with his conscience last week when wet snow started to fall on his Dix Hills, L.I., home, 40 miles from the Time & Life Building. "I've been trying not to drive to work any more," he says...
Vietnam is not free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing may resume over Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems more peaceful today than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, has ended--perhaps for good...
Vietnam is not yet free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing continues to murder, maim, starve and make homeless the people of Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems more peaceful today than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, has ended--perhaps for good...