MediaWatch: July 1992
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: July 1992
- Media Money Funds Democrats
- NewsBites: The Wrong Rights
- Revolving Door: Special Report: Democrats Covering Democrats
- Networks Decry Difficulties for Teens Seeking Abortions
- Style Triumphs Over Substance of Summit
- Bored By KGB Archives
- Clinton's Media Fans
- Janet Cooke Award: CBS: Blind "Eye of the Earth"
Clinton's Media Fans
HOPING HE WINS
In recent months two New Republic Senior Editors, both veterans of Newsweek, have described the depth of Bill Clinton's support in the news media. In the March 9 issue, Hendrik Hertzberg wrote: "Several dozen political journalists of my acquaintance, many of whom the Buchanan administration may someday round up on suspicion of having Democratic or even liberal sympathies -- was of one mind as the season's first primary campaign shuddered toward its finish. I asked each of them, one after another, this question: If you were a New Hampshire Democrat, whom would you vote for? The answer was always the same; and the answer was always Clinton. In this group, in my experience, such unanimity is unprecedented....
"Almost none is due to calculations about Clinton being `electable'....and none at all is due to belief in Clinton's denials in the Flowers business, because no one believes these denials. No, the real reason members of The Press like Clinton is simple, and surprisingly uncynical: they think he would make a very good, perhaps a great, President."
In the May 11 issue, Mickey Kaus suggested why many hope Clinton wins: "Many pro-Clinton journalists can reasonably hope for something more than glamorous candlelight dinners in the Clinton White House. They can hope for jobs in the Clinton White House. The air is thick with undisclosed ambition....let's just say that the positions of press secretary and speechwriter to President Clinton will be among the more hotly contested job opportunities to come along since 9,000 people lined up for a few hotel jobs in Chicago last winter."
