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...York Times reports that the candidates are beginning to stump "the dogwood-dappled state" more in earnest now, although Wallace finds his Northern campaigns more attractive and plans only four or five stops. Tom Wicker, originally of Hamlet, N.C., returns to the state to talk to Sanford, picks up the News and Observer's theme and writes about it in the Times...
...discussing "advocacy journalism," New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker seemed to be swimming against the tide when he observed that "news stories should not be editorials." But the real advocacy to be guarded against, he said, is the "sort that accepts the status quo as the norm." One of the few old-fashioned admonitions came from Seymour Hersh, who first broke the My Lai story: "There is not a newspaper in the country where, if you assemble your facts and do your work hard enough, they won't put [an expos...
...stories favorable to the Administration and inflating negative news, with blind skepticism toward presidential policies and governmental authority generally. Nixon is not the only victim, Keogh argues. The public is led to believe that there exist simple solutions to serious problems if only the President would listen to Tom Wicker and Eric Sevareid. Blacks are told that they have an enemy in the White House. Youngsters become accustomed to hearing that troublemakers are admirable. "If the U.S. declines," Keogh concludes apocalyptically, "history will not let American journalism escape its large share of the responsibility...
...ironic and topical-comes into full play. Those who have talked with him marvel at his ability to sit motionless for hours-often till dawn-moving only his head and his hands. In the Atlantic, Australian Scholar Ross Terrill described Chou in conversation: "Sitting back in a wicker chair, wrists flapping over the chair's arms, he seems so relaxed as to be without bones, poured into the chair, almost part of it, as persons seem part of their surroundings in old Chinese paintings." When Chou stands up, his visitors are often startled to find that he is about...
...Poles trooped into East Germany, snapping up cameras, household appliances and electric shavers, which are almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...