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BOOKS The rise of media empires Daniel Schorr THE POWERS THAT BE by David Halberstam Alfred A. Knopf. 771 pp. $15. Several years ago David Halberstam decided to write a book about a television...
...In 1952, Senator Estes Kefauver used television to achieve "the access and exposure that the party machinery would have loved to deny him" and "set a pattern for the diminution of the party structure...
...At no time before or since has a U.S...
...Interracial sex was the most potent social taboo in the South...
...Some of the best pages of the book are warm vignettes about working journalists, such as Alan Barth, the retired Washington Post editorial writer, "a gentle, modest man, passionate about liberties and freedom...
...Despite backlash and reaction to these changes, with the media focusing increasingly on anti-abortionists and on conflicts between feminists and conservatives, the national women's meeting in Houston, Texas, in November 1977 brought together women from an amazing variety of backgrounds and viewpoints...
...The Politics of Cancer is a voluminous reference source for those who want to understand why the cancer plague will get worse unless the Government gets tough with industry...
...Millions of overweight Americans, aroused to action by the potential loss of their diet drinks, stampeded Congress into postponing the FDA ban for eighteen months during a National Academy of Sciences study...
...If they really believed in equality, why shouldn't they sleep together...
...The Woodward-Bernstein Watergate road to fame comes alive, projected com-pellingly against the larger drama of an institution led by an insecure widow gambling its corporate existence in a conflict with a besieged President...
...Expect no mercy for narrow-minded publishers and propaganda-blinded editors of Time when Halberstam describes the ordeals of Theodore White in China and Charles Mohr in Saigon...
...It deserves a wide readership...
...increasingly diversified," a women's caucus made demands which were met with ridicule...
...with the exceptions of the unbridled opposition of the Hearst chain and the fulminations of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune, FDR had wide press support...
...The hyperbole here is considerable, for Cronkite was making his late entry into the Vietnam arena more to articulate an emerging consensus than to create one...
...The tide was at flood...
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...It is clear," Dr...
...But I am not sure what television "won" other than a painful position as the target in an increasingly intense struggle for power in which media potentates were alternately cultivated and pressured by politicians grasping for this ultimate weapon for manipulation of voters...
...It struck him that great national issues, like Vietnam and Watergate, were influenced, perhaps decisively, by the interaction of national leadership with national television...
...If more of us had learned the parallels and origins of the abolitionist and suffragist movements," she writes, "there might have been less surprise when a new movement called Women's Liberation grew from the politicization of white and black women in the civil rights movement of the 1960s...
...far-reaching decisions are made on the basis of poor, or even non-existent, data on the risks involved...
...Ann Morrissett Davidon (Ann Morrissett Davidon, a free-lance writer, is a peace and anti-nuclear activist...
...Some women returned to the North disillusioned...
...The increase offers additional support for the conclusion of most experts that cancer is environmental in origin and that the recent increase in incidence of cancer is due to environmental pollutants...
...And, because of the disease's long latency period, we have yet to see the full impact of that continuing failure...
...Jack Nelson, Washington reporter for The Los Angeles Times, "a man of almost unique qualities...
...Television was legitimized as the main instrument of political discourse...
...Some suggest scenes from Russian ballet, others have a childlike freshness of observation, and an imaginative vision pervades all of them...
...I can't do it any more...
...Murrey Marder, who was responsible for the Post's "diligent, dogged coverage of [Senator Joseph] McCarthy...
...It is nice to find an occasional qualification amidst the enthusiastic superlatives...
...Rather the policies and responsibilities are distributed over many diverse agencies and institutes with widely differing philosophies, priorities, and often with overlapping and poorly defined jurisdictions...
...12.95 hardcover...
...Even Halberstam realized he couldn't do everything...
...As Halberstam documents, The Los Angeles Times launched and fueled the career of Richard M. Nixon, and conspired to cut down his opponents...
...One little known fact White discloses is that Roosevelt denied petitions of black journalists, starting in 1933, for admission to his press conferences until 1944...
...Grunenthal's record for sleazy singleness of purpose and ruthless reprisal against critics of the drug stands alone, even above General Motors' efforts to smear Ralph Nader after his criticism of the Corvair...
...More women are working outside the home, more are in the professions...
...But Dr...
...he and the camera were born for each other...
...The minute is worth too much now...
...tutions: in short, a golden opportunity for an enterprising investigative reporter...
...Thalidomide is not wholly a British story, of course...
...At the end the Insight Team strikes a chilling note: "The noxious fruit of the thalidomide story has been plain for all to see, but the same weeds still flourish...
...NAS later reported that the methodology of the test represented normal scientific practice...
...Evans herself is one of the white southern women about whom she writes with particular perception...
...The catalysts of the women's uprising were also its causes: young male rebels who were these women's cohorts, and oppressors, in the struggle against racism, the draft, the Vietnam war, the "establishment...
...The power of television lies more in the medium than in its journalists, available more to those who know how to exploit it than 'The media tycoons were more king-servers than king-makers' those working in it...
...When we don't have to go through you bastards, we can really get the story to the American people," he once told his friend, Ben Bradlee, then of Newsweek, who had complimented him on a television appearance...
...European doctors proved just as amenable to blandishments from drug company "detail men," just as willing to lend their names to "scientific" work they did not do, just as willing to lie and cheat in the interest of the bottom line, as some of their American counterparts...
...12.95 If it is true that a newspaper's function is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, then one of the all-time grand awards for performance must go to the now suspended Sunday Times of London for its sixteen-year battle to obtain justice for victims of the thalidomide outrage of the early 1960s...
...The big winner" in 1960, says Halberstam, was "television, more specifically the networks...
...A brief section on peace and disarmament urges that women "raise their voices, do their homework, argue the case against armament, and support disarmament initiatives...
...He cites many occasions in which industry has concealed knowledge of hazards from the workers and the Government or has destroyed evi58 / july 1979 dence of such knowledge...
...For all his achievements and charm, Roosevelt was arrogant and claimed no mere journalist could possibly know as much about government as he...
...Women's groups spread like brush fires through the late 1960s, "infused with a vitality that was rapidly ebbing in other parts of the Left...
...the first time in American history a war had been declared over by an anchorman...
...Perhaps the best example of how this subversion of public policy operates is the case of Philippe S'nubik, a well-known industrial consultant who remains a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board, a policy-making body of the National Cancer In-stitute Dr...
...Where such needs came together with genuine mutual regard," Evans writes, "there was a sense in which the 'beloved community' of black and white together took on concrete reality in the intimacy of the bedroom...
...Imaginative vision Fantastic Cities and Other Paintings, by Vera Stravinsky (David R. Godine...
...That was what led Nixon's lieutenants to ask, then demand, and then threaten Paley and Stanton in an effort to neutralize the damaging effects of news operations...
...You always come through, Frank, and I'm grateful for it," President Johnson wrote Stanton in 1964...
...The forerunner was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who made radio "his own personal instrument and...
...Halberstam, in fact, provides ample documentation of how politicians manipulate the media...
...The industrial era has yielded to the information era...
...Of all the media moguls in the book, clearly Paley is the author's least favorite, perhaps because he comes from the world most alien to Halberstam's — the world of entertainment, in which news is a minor, and sometimes irritating, sideline...
...Writing of their sexual attractions and antagonisms, she notes, "The entrance of white women in large numbers into the movement could hardly have been anything but explosive...
...His choice fell on Henry Luce's Time magazine, William S. Paley's Columbia Broadcasting System, the Grahams' Washington Post, and the Chandlers' Los Angeles Times...
...Sierra Club Books...
...Several years ago David Halberstam decided to write a book about a television network (CBS) and the American Presidency...
...That same year, General Dwight Eisenhower used television as a weapon to wrest the Republican nomination from Senator Robert Taft and became "the first beneficiary" of the trend towards television candidates...
...The media tycoons were more king-servers than king-makers...
...Some went to work in inner city slums and ghettos, finding their strengths in organizing through urban community programs...
...At one NCI meeting at which the future of a Procter & Gamble detergent was being discussed, Shubik argued for the product's continued use...
...470 pp...
...186 pp...
...In an introduction Gloria Steinem presents a lively capsule history of the women's movement in America...
...In this new sisterhood Evans sees the possibility of transforming the future...
...l'pstein recounts several incidents in which Shubik has been in-strumentai in undermining important cancer control policies...
...But bad as Grunenthal's villainies may have been, the thalidomide affair really becomes comprehensible to American readers only when translated into the Anglo-Saxon legal and cultural idiom and relocated on the more familiar terrain of England and America...
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...Johnson, on the other hand, who was "ill at ease with the modernity of television," was "probably the first to be brought down by television, or at least partly by television...
...The television reporters were known "enemies" of the Administration but the top executives had presented themselves as friends...
...Samuel Epstein, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, has written a carefully argued, well-documented book that unravels many of the mysteries of the cancer miasma...
...Steven d' Arazien (Steven d'Arazien, a former reporter, is a legislative assistant to Representative Andrew Maguire, New Jersey Democrat...
...As the New Left disintegrated "in counterpoint to the theme of black power," women whose skills and consciousness had developed within SNCC and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were "ready to take up the banner of women's liberation____ Armed with a political rationale and the knowledge that many women within the Left were raising the issue of women's roles, they set out to create something of their own...
...Books Briefly Bill of rights for women What Women Want (Simon and Schuster...
...She interviewed many women and some men and has carefully interwoven their words into a chronological document of the "movement," especially as it developed through civil rights actions in the South...
...Paley accepted the kiss without informing Mrs...
...They sat in together...
...Suffer the Children will disabuse Americans of the self-conscious notion that professions abroad operate on a loftier plane than they do here...
...The release pointed out, "Saccharin has been in use for more than eighty years and has never been found to harm people," without noting the limitations of such human observations...
...Epstein observes, "The most concrete generalization that can be made about the Government policy on carcinogens is that there is no single policy yet...
...Developed for the chronicling of the scenes behind the scenes in the making and un-making of Presidents, the technique involves the distillation of many taped recollections, with an admixture of creative intuition, all presented as the way things were among the press lords and ladies...
...President Kennedy knew that the uses of television lay in television itself, not in its journalists...
...Sara Evans has written an informa-live, intelligent study (apparently her doctoral dissertation) of the rising consciousness of young activist women in the 1960s...
...That sentiment was obviously shared by President Nixon, who exerted constant pressure for air time — and against journalistic reporting and analysis — in a contest that gathered intensity with the failing war in Vietnam and reached a climax with Watergate...
...The public is both confused and frightened by the specter of cancer...
...In the growing antiwar movement of the late 1960s, activist women also found their roles to be secondary and their leadership discounted...
...William Hines (William Hines is a correspondent in the Washington bureau of the Chicago Sun-Times who specializes in medical and scientific affairs...
...is not political and...
...Watergate and the Pentagon Papers incident that preceded it were played out in public, with no form of censorship effectively prevailing against the public washing of dirty linen...
...He made a charge, demonstrably untrue, that 85 per cent of the nation's press opposed him...
...In this country only a few infants were born deformed by thalidomide before the drug was withdrawn from clinical trials...
...I'm sorry, Bill," Paley is quoted as saying...
...products (Johnnie Walker scotch, Gordon's gin) because of that company's recalcitrant role in fighting the liability of its drug subsidiary for marketing the horror drug in the British Isles...
...When challenged as to whose views he was expressing, Shubik admitted the views were those of Procter & Gamble, one of his many corporate clients...
...That may not be the precise quotation...
...She views consciousness-raising as both method and strategy and credits it with liberating women on all levels, spreading the movement through secretarial pools, college dormitories, and housewives' coffee klatsches...
...If Sara Evans were a novelist instead of a sociological historian, what a rich tale of turmoil and discovery, what vivid human beings she might have portrayed in an account of the burgeoning women's movement of the 1960s...
...A collective picture emerges of idealistic, determined young women, most of them white college students, discovering their own oppression as they learn the skills of organizing and speaking out against the oppression of others...
...Instead of explaining its decision to the public, the FDA press release made the agency look foolish...
...Halberstam's own experience and feelings inevitably color his story...
...He told the editor working with him on his book, "Whenever I had real trouble with those network commentators I'd call someone like Frank and I'd say, 'What the hell are you trying to do to me...
...An important figure to Halberstam is Walter Cronkite, not for his professionalism alone, but because he exemplifies the book's principal, if overstated, theme — the influence of television on politics and American society...
...The paintings, handsomely reproduced in this small format, are a delight, alive with vivid color...
...For many Americans Suffer the Children will be an anodyne to the guilt feelings that persist five years after Watergate, because the book tells us that while Watergate perhaps could not have happened in England, a malaise a great deal worse could have happened — and did...
...The timing is right...
...To most Americans the horrible deformities of phocomelia, brought on by the use of a supposedly harmless sedative early in pregnancy, are a nightmare dimly remembered...
...In retirement Johnson reacted to Vice President Spiro Agnew's assault on the media by saying there was a better way to handle such problems...
...Some of the movement's strengths were also its weaknesses: loose structure led to internal incoherence as the women's movement expanded, and fragmentation intensified as the movement met obstacles and counter-movements...
...309 pp...
...In 1952, CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a friend of Eisenhower, had his news executives, at tremendous expense, arrange live coverage of the general's announcement of his candidacy in Abilene, Kansas...
...Epstein's view, we have reached a crisis in democracy in which special interests have seized control of the responsible agencies in an effort to further their own short-term economic interests...
...Predictably, for an author whose book, The Best and the Brightest, had encompassed, along with a war, a whole political and intellectual generation, the narrow focus proved too confining...
...Epstein shows how a sound regulatory decision was handled poorly by the Food and Drug Administration and was then nullified by an ill-informed Congress which caved in to industry pressure...
...But the price of compelling narrative is acceptance of the author's perspective...
...With his sensitive eye for detail and anecdote, Haiberstam makes the reader feel like an eyewitness to episodes as private as Frank Stanton's feud with Edward R. Murrow at CBS and Washington Post publisher Philip Graham's humiliation of his wife in his descent into madness and suicide...
...President been so accessible...
...Suffer the Children is only incidentally about thalidomide babies, although it does include a chapter graphically detailing how some of these crippled victims, now on the verge of adulthood, cope today...
...It is a decade in need of an American, and perhaps female, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky to make it live in literature...
...Here in the United States we tend to forget how perilously close thalidomide came to being licensed and how ferociously the battle for the drug was fought by the pharmaceutical house of Richardson-Merrell, Inc...
...Cancer plague THE POLTICS OF CANCER by Samuel Epstein, M.D...
...The result is, at the most basic level, a prodigious feat of story-telling...
...The dispensers of these images may be more influential — depending what one means by influence — than the retailers of goods...
...To make his project manageable, he selected four media empires, skirting the one that would have seemed most obvious — The New York Times — for reasons having to do with his ambivalent feelings about his former employer...
...But, to Halberstam's credit, he soft-pedals his own conclusions, preferring to let his themes emerge in the plentiful anecdotes...
...It exemplifies, in a curious way, what it is examining — the creation of new and more vivid forms of reality in the new media age...
...another is about the editors and publishers who were "hesitant to challenge the Administration, willing to accept its norms and definitions...
...Groups such as the National Organization of Women (NOW) which emphasized women's rights also became affected by the broader, more cooperative, and "radical" aspects of feminism...
...Still, Evans maintains, the attitudes and situation of women in the 1970s are substantially different from those of women in the 1950s...
...Suffer the Children by the newspaper's Insight Team is a start-to-finish account of that battle, and it has the shock value of a sudden glimpse of a thalidomide baby...
...Appreciative tributes summing up her artistry are included from Eugene Berman, Paul Horgan, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender, and Robert Craft presents brief biographical notes...
...Personal statements from some of the delegates — a Minnesota farmer, a Maryland Gray Panther, a Texas torch runner — are surprisingly varied and captivating...
...Thus, there is the picture of Paley trying to retain the services of Bill Moyers, but unwilling to give the newsman the regular time for documentaries that was his condition for staying at CBS...
...He may be awed by media moguls, but he loves the reporters...
...Although historian White's writing often suffers from pedantry, his book, especially the anecdotal material, is fascinating...
...This was flattering to the journalists and resulted in FDR's receiving more favorable reports than he might sometimes have deserved...
...Today they can be seen occasionally in large European cities — babies no longer, but pitiful caricatures of adults, many of whom will be around well into the Twenty-first Century as living reminders of an ignoble chapter in pharmacology...
...We seem today to be guided more by images than by tangible things...
...Thereupon Kennedy became "the first television President...
...Moyers told me that what Paley said was, "You can't get top dollar for that...
...But the manipulation of the lords of television — a more potent medium, and one subject to Government regulation — carried more ominous implications...
...Although Vera Stravinsky has been painting for many years and has had numerous exhibitions of her work, this slim, off-size volume is the first collection in book form of some of her watercolors and paintings...
...192 pp...
...At the 1967 National Conference for New Politics held in Chicago, described by Evans as "a parting attempt by early New Left leaders to pull together a 'movement...
...In the anti-nuclear movement now sweeping the country there is an acute feminist awareness evidenced in decentralized structure, personalized style, and strong participation of women...
...The book is essentially about corporate greed, about conflict of interest among professionals supposedly governed by rigid ethical codes, about timid physicians and uneasy bureaucrats, and, above all, about the shortcomings of the celebrated British system of justice...
...Somewhere it could all be happening again right now...
...Ralph Nader, who once proposed an American boycott of Distillers Ltd...
...Halberstam fails to understand the difference between recognition and power...
...The denied manhood of black men, the denied womanhood some white women felt in not being slim models of commercial America, the racial guilts, the insecurity and loss of support from family and friends that many civil rights workers felt, all led to a hunger for affirmation and reassurance...
...It was a release guaranteed to place the agency under political attack...
...6.95 paperback...
...Graham told Paley, with a kiss of gratitude, it was CBS that made it a national story by running a long two-part synopsis of the Watcrgate investigation on the Cronkite show shortly before the 1972 election...
...She is eloquent in drawing parallels between the oppression of blacks and women, their alliances in the anti-slavery movement of the mid-Nineteenth Century and in the civil rights movement of the 1960s...
...84 pp...
...It began with a German company called Chemie Gru-nenthal, one of whose chemists constructed the thalidomide molecule...
...As he observes, most cancer is preventable if we can prevent exposures to carcinogens...
...The horror drug SUFFER THE CHILDREN: THE STORY OF THALIDOMIDE by the Insight Team of The Sunday Times of London Viking Press...
...I would venture to guess that had he aired the same critical report a year earlier, he would have undermined not President Johnson's influence, but his own...
...In 1968, when the CBS anchorman stepped out of his neutral corner to go to Vietnam and do some critical reporting, "Lyndon Johnson knew it was all over...
...Graham how angry and dismayed he had been by the rashness of his news people, which had brought down on him threats of ruination by Charles Colson, the White House hatchet man...
...In any conflict between the bureau in the field and the home office, one has no trouble discerning who is Halberstam's hero and who his villain — especially when the subject is Vietnam...
...And the struggle against racism brought together young, naive, sometimes insensitive, rebellious, and idealistic white women with young, angry black men, some of whom had hardly been allowed to speak to white women before...
...In 1977, after some twenty studies indicated the carcinogenicity of saccharin, the FDA announced a ban on its use in foods and drinks...
...He cites case after case of the ineffective regulation of such workplace carcinogens as asbestos and benzene, consumer products such as cigarettes and food additives, and environmental contaminants such as DDT...
...By long, if unhealthy, tradition, lords of the print press have dabbled in politics...
...With the example of saccharin, Dr...
...Half-forgotten names, or familiar names in a half-forgotten context, crop up in the pages of this peerless report: among them, Sherri Finkbein, who, we may remember, went to Sweden for an abortion in the days before legalization here, but who, we may forget, was impelled to seek abortion because she had been taking thalidomide...
...the source, incidentally, of the patrimony of Representative Richardson Preyer, North Carolina Democrat, who early this year came within two votes of being named chairman of a House subcommittee with jurisdiction over matters dealing with drugs...
...Accessible to the press FDR and the Press, by Graham J. White (University of Chicago Press...
...Soon his five-year plan had evolved into a more challenging theme — the rise of the media and their impact on America...
...The thalidomide story, by contrast, was kept under wraps for years under the pretext of safeguarding the sanctity of justice...
...His sympathies obviously lie with the workers who, according to the National Cancer Institute, get between 20 and 40 per cent of all cancer...
...The release noted that, for the test, rats were fed saccharin equivalent to human consumption of 800 cans of diet soda a day without explaining that not only are such high dosage tests standard but that the affected industry had reviewed the test plan without negative comment...
...Indeed, his unique position of being trusted (according to opinion polls) more than any politician, including the President, derives precisely from his carefully guarded image of being detached, fair, and above controversy...
...In Dr...
...He blamed the dictates of editors and publishers for news stories which displeased him, an allegation which was patently inaccurate...
...The arrogant attitudes of many men — both black and white — and the anger of the women (black women against white women, and both against their misuses by men), however, led to increasing divisiveness within the Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other groups working in the South...
...no political issue is not ultimately personal...
...Television was, paradoxically, the most powerful of communications media and the most vulnerable...
...5.95 paperback...
...Vietnam was a war in which journalists made their reputations and generals lost theirs" is one of the author's generalizations...
...The total economic impact, including health care and lost productivity, has been estimated at $25 billion a year...
...Out of "what had been widely envisioned as a likely debacle" came an enthusiastic gathering that'' turned out to be a dramatic statement of the changes wrought in the last decade, injecting renewed vigor and unity into the movement...
...274 pp...
...Contingency fees have been called "the poor man's key to the courthouse," and that is indeed what they turned out to be in the relatively few suits brought here for thalidomide damages...
...Immediately the industry, through its "front group," the Calorie Council, barraged the public with misleading advertisements...
...Epstein cites the substantial increase in the production of synthetic organic chemicals since World War II, and the failure to control their introduction into the environment, as key factors why cancer has become the nation's number two killer...
...Caroline Bird and the staff of the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year have assembled this big book which traces the preparations for the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston and its events...
...The Washington Posts Philip Graham was the "kingmaker" who negotiated Johnson's place on the Kennedy ticket and thus ensured his Presidency...
...Epstein notes, "that there has been a real and an absolute increase in cancer incidence and mortality which cannot be explained by increasing life spans or smoking...
...This book is investigative reporting at its best...
...Rupert Murdoch, who ripped part of the shroud of secrecy from the thalidomide case by the same sneaky tactics he is criticized for using now as a U.S...
...Continuing to meet later, they drew up a call "to the women of the Left" exhorting them to organize for their own liberation and to avoid the mistakes of the early civil rights activists in allowing others to speak for the oppressed...
...The Washington Post had started the unraveling of Watergate, but, as Mrs...
...changed permanently the institution of politics...
...Pointing to the tragic lack of any comprehensive and effective Federal policy toward carcinogens, Dr...
...Women aware PERSONAL POLITICS by Sara Evans Alfred A. Knopf...
...In her last chapter Evans wraps up her theme that "no private domain of a person's life...
...The first Nixon-Kennedy debate in 1960 marked "the day that changed politics...
...While women in the 1960s developed awareness of their own situation through involvement in the cause of others, women in the 1970s are directly conscious of their own oppression and organized around it...
...Twenty per cent of us will die of cancer...
...In Europe, where thalidomide was available commercially for years after it should have been outlawed, hundreds of crippled babies were born...
...In far too many cases, agencies are influenced by those whose primary loyalties are not to the public health but rather to their former (or current) corporate clients...
...He writes a column for The Des Moines Register & Tribune Syndicate and broadcasts commentary for the Independent Television News Association and National Public Radio's news program, "All Things Considered...
...The resulting relationships were caring and supportive in some cases, exploitative and embittering in others...
...CBS's Frank Stanton, on the other hand, was a "Johnson man," providing a profitable CBS affiliation for his Austin radio station, accepting his appointments to Government boards, and relaying to news executives Johnson's objections to critical broadcasts like an interview with Senator William Fulbright...
...One cannot avoid reflection, on reading Suffer the Children, about how much better the injured were served by the much maligned American "contingency fee'' system of lawyers' compensation than by the system prevailing in England...
...Halberstam sensed that the inside story of the media — from newsroom to boardroom to bedroom — represented a subject of great the media had failed to reveal as completely as they had exposed other instiDaniel Schorr, the former CBS news correspondent who covered Watergate, is the author of "Clearing the Air...
...He notes the hodge-podge of environmental law, the lack of interagency coordination, and the basic unwillingness to provide more than a slap on the wrist to leaders of industries which place thousands of workers at risk...
...today women expect more of life than cleaning house and bearing children...
...and Morley Safer and Jack Laurence of CBS, "the two best television reporters of the war" in Vietnam...
...The women at Houston demonstrated that feminism had, in the space of a decade, generated a change that is still taking place...
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoyed (literally, it seems) a love-hate relationship with the press...
...His influence, if not his power, rivaled that of Presidents," says Halberstam of Cronkite...
...12.50 hardcover...
...Later, though Halberstam does not write about it, Paley carried on a flirtation with Nixon, and in 1960 sought in vain to press on him the idea of a fifth debate with Kennedy, convinced that it would have turned the tide in Nixon's favor...
...press lord...
...25 color plates...
...All the lessons have not been learned...
...What are you people screaming at me for?' And it would quiet down for a while...
...Despite its loose and somewhat repetitive organization, The Politics of Cancer offers the layman a unique and critical look at the political and economic reasons why the Government has failed to deal effectively with the cancer problem...
...The groundwork laid by women activists and analysts like Sara Evans, and all the feminists before her time, gives one hope...
...But, either way, it makes a fitting curtain line...
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