Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Will Watch Fred Barnes (Presswatch, TAS, September 1983) tells us that it's a certainty in his mind that Accuracy in Media and Human Events would have pilloried Joe Kraft had he...
...even those events he may have helped to shape...
...Perkinson's discerning criticism of my put-down of Anthony Burgess's The End of the World News (Correspondence, TAS, October 1983), sure I know what Mr...
...West German news media take their cue from America's Eastern press with the result that to many German readers and viewers U.S...
...A journalist loves to be in the public eye and cannot forgive the politician the publicity he earns by entering the tough game of politics...
...As for the Uncle Charles Principal (sic), up to a degree, oh o.k., beyond it, bully...
...Buckley Camden, South Carolina The editors apologize to Mr...
...Would George Will have been "wrong" had he encouraged candidate Reagan to read his columns because they might be politically helpful...
...We noted that one of Will's critics, Jack Nelson of the L.A...
...George Will's job is to give his opinion concerning events...
...He denigrates the life and legend of General Patton, admonishing our officer corps to idolize the mild mannered Bradley and forego the bluster of GSP, Jr...
...Becomes the kind of phony-baloney that entraps writers into playing games for the tickling of etiolated critical quills (which is what has been done in poetry...
...The Sicilian campaign established absolutely the credentials of the American soldier as a match for any and all...
...Perkinson's letter before receiving Mr...
...That stark fact is that Mr...
...This promotes neutralism in line with Soviet aims...
...Buckley's reply...
...P.R...
...When he ceases to explore the human heart, which is the novelist's only true business, book by book ever more desperately trying to conceal his sterility of emotions behind verbal wizardry and structural artifice, he forfeits our affectionate esteem, sadly...
...He suggests that our defense of George Will's having done the equivalent for Reagan reflects a conservative bias...
...While Joe Kraft did once terminate a phone conversation with me several years ago with a rude sexual expletive, I can assure Fred Barnes that I would not think of pillorying Joe for engaging in the common journalistic sin of political intercourse...
...Cliff Kincaid and I did a radio broadcast in which we said that Will was getting a bum rap from some of his journalistic colleagues...
...Patton (and MacArthur) in particular never knowingly wasted human life...
...F.R...
...Who reads poetry nowadays: pros and creeps...
...Another brilliant achievement of American publicists lies in the fact that in "the world's greatest democracy" just a little over half of the citizenry finds it worthwhile to vote in national elections...
...I can't speak for Human Events, but Accuracy in Media doesn't owe George Will a thing...
...He has written himself out...
...Washington, D.C...
...Our officer corps can learn from many models...
...Was R. Emmett Tyrrell "wrong" in commenting about the 1980 campaign knowing full well that Ronald Reagan was a subscriber to his monthly review...
...To my knowledge, the only time he has ever mentioned AIM publicly, he took pains to insure that he did not damage his merchandiseability with the networks...
...But the matter has international implications...
...Let's get serious...
...We cited a few historical cases of much deeper involvement by journalists in partisan politics, including one involving Joe Alsop...
...His laudatory profile of Bradley suffers from the reverse problem...
...It bores...
...Too tricky, too arty, too contrived...
...Neureiter Geneseo, New York Neureiter Geneseo, New York...
...William J. Watson, MD Taunton, Massachusetts The Great Achievers As an immigrant from Europe with the warmest feelings toward my adopted country I was delighted by Stephen Miller's article, "Gutter Rousseauists" (TAS, October 1983), to which I should like to add that every U.S...
...journalist of note suffers from a subconscious guilt complex: why did he make it into the White House and not me...
...Burgess is trying to do, but what I'm saying is that it don't work...
...Pattern In his September reveiw of A General's Life, Eliot A. Cohen complains that the postwar romanticization of George Patton has taken place at Omar Bradley's expense...
...The widespread appreciation of General Patton by, military and non-military people affirms what the lowest "dog soldier" knew: Patton's Army rolled...
...political leaders appear either ridiculous or brinkmannish or corrupt, in general untrustworthy...
...This is the only thing that I have said on the subject, and it is remarkably similar to what Barnes himself said in his article...
...CORRESPONDENCE Will Watch Fred Barnes (Presswatch, TAS, September 1983) tells us that it's a certainty in his mind that Accuracy in Media and Human Events would have pilloried Joe Kraft had he dropped by a Carter debate practice session and tossed out a question...
...Times, was himself very close to Jimmy Carter...
...From the breakout at Avranche through the assault on Metz to the rescue at Bastogne, Patton was the complete general, so impressive and effective that the resultant professional jealousy kept Eisenhower and Bradley from approving Patton's 3rd Division strike at Berlin which assuredly would have won the war...
...Carl Rowley Columbia, Missouri Reid Buckley Replies Re Mr...
...Buckley for printing Mr...
...Cohen's inaccuracies about Patton provoke an admonition to read The Patton Papers and War As I Knew It...
...and his country triumphed...
...Reed Irvine, Chairman Accuracy in Media, Inc...
...In "Anything Goes" (Presswatch, TAS, September 1983) Fred Barnes fails to make the crucial distinction between the "journalistic ethics" governing news reporters and those governing editorial columnists...
...his soldiers won and lived...
...His goal in Sicily was to establish conclusively that the American soldier should not be regarded as a second class fighter by either the English or the Germans...
...Burgess needs a rest...
Vol. 16 • November 1983 • No. 11
