MediaWatch: April 1991
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: April 1991
- Gumbel's Morning Gospel
- NewsBites: Telling McGrory's Story
- Revolving Door: Two Times A Nader
- CBS Claims Millions of Kids Almost Starving
- Address Dismisses Conservatives, Iraq War Victory
- Joining Stahl's Quest for More Money
- ABC News on Lee Atwater
- Janet Cooke Award: CBS: Faking the Nation
Revolving Door: Two Times A Nader
Two Times A Nader. Ronald Brownstein, a national political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times since last spring, is out with a new book on the Hollywood-Washington connection, titled The Power and the Glitter. It's Brownstein's first book since he co-authored Reagan's Ruling Class: Portraits of the President's Top 100 Officials for Ralph Nader's Presidential Accountability Group in 1982. The year before, Brownstein edited with Nader a book published by the Sierra Club, Who's Poisoning America: Corporate Polluters and Their Victims in the Chemical Age.<D>
Brownstein co-authored the Reagan book with his wife, Nina Easton, who has covered the entertainment community for the Los Angeles Times since 1989. In 1982 Easton authored Reagan's Squeeze on Small Business, a Nader report. In it, Easton concluded that Reagan's economic policies would accelerate economic concentration, "transforming a nation of business owners into a nation of employees."
Losing and Moving. Two aides to unsuccessful Republican Senate candidates have bounced back. Michigan Congressman Bill Schuette lost his seat, but his Executive Director didn't have to go far to find a new job. Roll Call recently reported Rob Rehg, Washington correspondent for Hearst Newspapers until joining the Republican's staff in 1989, has been hired by the man who won Schuette's seat. Rehg's now Director of Communications and Policy for U.S. Representative Dave Camp....
David Fox, Press Secretary to U.S. Representative Lynn Martin, who lost in Illinois, has taken the same post with Republican Congressman Harold Rogers of Kentucky. Fox was an Associated Press reporter for ten years before Martin hired him in 1989.
New Washingtonian. Former Washington Post reporter Harry Jaffe, Press Secretary to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in 1978 and 1979, has joined Washingtonian as a National Editor. As a Post staff reporter, Jaff covered local news in 1981. During the rest of the '80s he contributed freelance articles.
Departing Dinkins. After 14 months as Press Secretary to New York City Democratic Mayor David Dinkins, former New York Times reporter Albert Scardino resigned in March. Scardino, who plans to write a book about his experiences at a weekly Georgia newspaper during the early 1980s, caused some controversy when it was revealed he had advised the Dinkins campaign while still a "Business Day" section reporter for the Times.
Pulitzer Selectors. Two people who have gone through the Revolving Door were among the 65 nominating jurors for the 1991 Pulitzer Prizes issued in early April. Selecting the stories from which the smaller prize board decided were Jodie Allen, the Editor of The Washington Post "Outlook" section who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Jimmy Carter; and Jack Fuller, Editor of the Chicago Tribune, who was Special Assistant to Attorney General Edward Levi during the Ford Administration.
