Issue 51-69

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In the E.R. than our radio network prevent the buckle
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of the week following by the president.
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There were robot hold on commentary that might have been expected in the electronic
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media in the print media all brought up again. What
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the vice president had that in other paper than by giving it sided with
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the president of the American body of newspaper editors with one of those who lent
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the fork with him in an attack on the new Norman
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the executive editor of one of the concrete form of the Courier Journal
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and Louisville Times Breivik Puddleduck remark
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arrogant have many.
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Broad communication our rivals
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have been openly contemptuous of the other.
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Whatever their difference they are now driven together as
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the target of what can only be viewed as an open
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campaign by the national administration to discredit them
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and more importantly to bring them under some form of birth
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control. The vice president of the united
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with merely the bearer of the pact with the big
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party conference.
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It was cleverly primed and cleverly written
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and the white bread of the fall of the pic.
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It had been given a tour of the White House press secretary
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said that the president and
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the president had competent rather than any support provide
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more of the president
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that Mr. Agnew elected and
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party competent by George Romney secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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And I quote dominated by the thought of New York and Washington
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and by critics there who are of the new culture.
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If there were a paper man who had a new attack
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on the art
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of the attack on television becomes quickly evident
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that the record the vice president that the morning
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went rather elaborate the separate television
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about being in one compartment in another
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but only earlier in an interview. World Report Mr Agnew
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concentrating on your target
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thing it had come about because he couldn't find a balance of opinion
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in the news media. That and here again
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I don't consider the media intellectual
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elite. Sometimes I think they're about the most I've
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ever.
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In an interview with the vice president made it clear you are talking about what
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the big liberal media because he commented that he felt he was doing
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with editorial writer in what he called being.
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Hard to drop on the air the
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interpretation if you agree with the administration may be an intellectual
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and if you don't there are other members of the admin to
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put it in the attack at a newspaper meeting in Bermuda.
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Attorney General John Mitchell replied.
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And Mr. Mullen up and taken a leading role in a fraud in the
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reporting of about court
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neither the attorney general or Mr. Mollett up are quite
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united.
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They have already publicly announced that they are unable to support the
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nominee.
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Some of the senators that made strong comments about the record and
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financial.
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It is one thing Senator to a packed
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and entirely something for the press to report but with.
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I'm not one that the political will
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from you know rightly what it is they want
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for their purpose. This new attack however it deeply
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disturbing an attack not merely an arm of thanks to God
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and which many of us admit but on the basic point
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of many of our political leaders
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going back even to George Washington have been angered by the press.
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But I cannot recall a drive mounted by and I can
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read of record and this one certainly that
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Mr. Agnew one reminder of broadcasting dependent
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on government and we can only grow more brightened
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when we read Burke chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
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Direct support of the vice president.
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Moreover he pointed out that on November pep
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president telephoning the network to ask for the grip of the
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remarks of the reporter and commentator on November 3rd following
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the perk and if reported from the protocol
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normally followed by that regulatory point
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up to the time the written order from the
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secretary with the complaint in written form and 20 given
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by. Make a
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comment with a good deal of reluctance because the kind of thing so often you
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and I do only because the parallel.
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I've been back with you and I wrote at length about
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that. There were many things in the time that surprised me.
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The writing event in the way the every bearing
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and they are commended. They want to get rid of the
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general air of the progress a willingness
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on the part of a pickle to pop. Frankly about domestic affairs and the
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shortcomings in that and I wrote
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that the one big disappointment within the partner of our colleague the leading editors in mock
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up. It may be on my part but it did
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to me that they were the true believers of
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the undeviating
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loyalty to the government the
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government of Turner gently but firmly without any
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ship on earth when we tried to probe about Vietnam
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and we got a BJ. Later I
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speculated that probably was necessary if one wanted
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the whole
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form of life.
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Not that you support government or
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when the vice president of the Federal Communications Commission deem it proper
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to correlate their complaints about what they term balance in the nude.
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I can't help but wonder what the difference between there
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and that in practice in the.
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I know that many people in the country are up and angry but I wonder if
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they know what quick they are stepping in when they write their
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report. The government hack on television do they really
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want to organize a campaign mounted on
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the radio and television like they welcome the
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idea of government offer judgment on what
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the vice president did that led to begin with.
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But he did it openly public control and what other interpretation
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can be drawn then administrative support that challenge
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and when the chairman of the EP who openly welcoming
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that have one of the Federal
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Regulatory Commission supposed to be a judge and
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the role of a prosecutor.
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You have one of two options. An analysis of the motive one of
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control. But is there any point
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along the view that the end result mumbling of some kind.
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There are many people arrogant and in the
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prime of jeopardy and I much prefer the arrogance of the
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independent media. However much I deplore some of
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the arrogant the government.
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Crowd I put my credentials in the field of
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communication of my colleagues are somewhat better than those of Mr
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Agnew in the post in the next minute. Herbert
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Klein the president director of communications can give ample testimony to
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how many of us have been open critic of journalistic practice over the years
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and how many games we have made in improving our various techniques and products
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we were being hurt for our profession long years report
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pyro Agnew started courting their paver in Maryland.
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Now let me help with the rent and I propose the post it applies
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to many other of my colleagues if not most.
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I have consistently packed all the forms of journalism
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because of what I have called a love hate relationship.
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I am totally absolutely devoted
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to journalism at the way of life. I sometimes hate it
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because it is not always lived up to its promise and income
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is not even up to it due to
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dedicate or can wind up sounding like comment
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about something very dear to
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your credit man. An organization
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I work for them to return
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it called me the most important man a new paper every time of
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the week that we very willingly have our shortcomings.
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And I think that the fact that with critical before you were
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evident that the men and communication are not in panic over the
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problem of them or helping them in a
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week to go before the attack on the news media.
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KLEIN And I shared the platform before the Colorado Bar
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on television and given the fact that it was made
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clear by the lawyer for the editor of the
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United pollutant
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of the long running conflict between prep and Barr over what is properly called
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pre-prep and where the members of the
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board of directors. In
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order to study the workings of the company
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that is very big in the study of the problems involved in a
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grievance committee complaints about the performance of the daily newspaper the.
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I could add the significant point that long before we
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had any information over the red
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bird to even contemplate ever considering a complaint
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from a political figure.
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Who have spent our lifetimes in Journalism know Paul Well how ephemeral a politician
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for papers or for what he can
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do politically it would only seven years ago that Mr. Nixon was
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saying I can only thank God for television and
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radio for keeping the newspaper a little more.
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We are told that the president watching approvingly as the vice president
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elevated and urged him to follow them or on a paper way of separating
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editorial comment or followed the PEC
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obvious otherwise. Or can we not even believe
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David learned the report.
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We don't have to go back to the political temperament
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after that that
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minute with lowered voice.
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Or attorney general or or commissioner
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or
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order the book Washington coverup and attack on the
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government. Think with
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all the turbulence at the Barry Goldwater
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sentiment the overwhelming majority of American
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Goldwater.
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Ah.
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Well I. Mean at least the security of
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American journalism
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with a conflict of objectivity from the bird
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in the basic problem with outlined years
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ago by one of the truly great men of our calling.
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Then all of a Rhodes scholar he was with the
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New York Times then analyst and commentator professor
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then director of the open of War Information and later
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again a network commentator returned he won the Peabody
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Award reporting in here
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with the good newspaper and a good broadcast.
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Mark walk a tightrope between
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the proper objectivity that everything at face value and let
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the public be imposed on by the front
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on the other the interpretive reporting would fail to draw the line between
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objectively between a reasonably well in fact
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and what the reporter and editor of the pack.
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There Eric Sevareid much the same thing. Much more bluntly
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and Eric Sevareid our rigid formula of so-called
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objectivity beginning with the wire and report
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are one dimensional handling of the news given by
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the prominent and impact that
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they have elevated the improvement to that of
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the ignorant to the level of the Learned to the level of the good.
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Who admirable you have the heart of the in the core of all or
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when the public needed or pull information about the significance of like
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economic legal poverty and while their labor
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management relation the problem with the grain growing the
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negro equality of opportunity we were acquiring more
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than ever and want to interpret
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it is simply an honest effort to reach objective approval.
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It had to be creaming in appeal on his
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knowledge of the. END. On his
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examination of the primary and the related
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from editorial opinion because editorial comment is subjective judgment
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of five. We've all known that
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many people do not like to read material with their president
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cover. Right and you probably find better in both management and labor.
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The management the union leaders
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the union public the management are
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in Russia. The loud shouting match occurred when the problem with the
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printing lies. The lie to him were contained in
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government American newspapers.
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That problem with picking that line
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and he shouted We have the croup gold are alive.
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Why your point why we have it take it from us. We tried to
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explain to him that we had the wrong both of
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that ally. Now Mr Agnew added
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another agreement. He complained about the Brighton on
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their plate and that Karkare them of
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their response.
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Now Mr William Buckley and a common
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or not I wonder
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if Mr Agnew point for Mr Buckley.
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And with the tone of the way and the sarcasm font.
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Now my point is that for all of our shortcomings and rather many
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for all of our arrogance
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we have been growing in our communicator and we
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are learning from each other. We are doing it the democratic way
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that our way toward the goal.
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The one thing I don't need at this point is the bombast and the pummeling of a
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political Republican or
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Democrat. I had no love
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for the community. May I
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now add what those who now support Mr. Agnew would
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have said if Mr. Johnson had made the thing.
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And now I want all or all way
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to work on a pattern of priorities. And there are probably a
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hundred things which could be lifted with the various communication ought to be
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moving on with all deliberation and now right now I'm only going to
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focus on port the port it.
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If there is one thing all of a copper from the
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path of the packet of nude men who
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Bob Barker the Toronto Globe numbered up there
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with that there are group and group. But the
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trend being for right or
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wrong has been the most bankable
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paper.
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Copied papering in regard to Auckland and Dr.
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And on top of that
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the children made which is a
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ranking and one on with that method.
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There have been too many and a lot of Lee
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have provoked violent protests
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and by what both can focus on action even
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their faction may not be representative of what is actually.
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The TV networks have recognized some of the people by adopting guidelines
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but guidelines or wrong by networks
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mean nothing unless you import the
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guidelines yet not by letter.
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My second priority would be for new papers and television alike to be more
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clean cut operating and
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none of the two are better. We are
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marking the common but even
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there something to be desired. Newspaper men
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who read their journal they understand what it meant.
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The reader simply have to work out some patterns
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that give the reader clear signal as to what it is we are
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preventing interpretation or comment.
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We can work on it when we are wanted never hurt. At
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what point the man is reporting or comment.
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The cream the great and up
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but the network and the property
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ought to be doing something about it up.
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My third priority had to do with opening our
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examination of what it is we do and why.
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And the corollary of adequate correct
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and my fourth and final priority of the moment the
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manner and the fact that I maintain it
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is by far more current than that. Only an appeal to put
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our new paper that you
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have on and want to court and the great of men like Walter Cronkite and
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David Brinkley and other
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like them.
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And then on the other you havea brave who acted as if they were portraying
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attorney prompting on trial for multiple rape
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and murder. And you pity the poor character on the other end of the
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pack.
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All of the claim to being we have a
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claim to be responsible even reporting
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and then get public of being an arrogant
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that I recall the term
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Democratic candidate for the predator in the Bing The New Paper line up again
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and it worked.
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Many of us had the can
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and now with the Dr who are
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not.
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But by the proper prickled of our government.
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Pretty Pat and then I have to listen to Mr. Agnew
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calling the other un-American. Thank you.
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Norman. President of the American fire of new paper editor
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and executive editor of The Courier Journal and Louisville pawn president of
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the Associated Press managing editor of The Nation. Here before the
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journalism at the University of Michigan November 9th any are the buckle of the
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week blank WUOM in Ann Arbor for the recording of the remarks with
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our radio network.