MediaWatch: October 1992
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: October 1992
- Watching the Ad Watchers
- NewsBites: Attacks off Limits?
- Revolving Door: Democratic Revolver Sees Bias
- Markle Foundation Funds Slanted Campaign Coverage
- Media Still Defend Aspiring First Lady
- Time, Corporate Tool
- Post's Deficit Solution
- Janet Cooke Award: NBC: Liberal Public Relations
Revolving Door: Democratic Revolver Sees Bias
Democratic Revolver Sees Bias. Philip Terzian, Editorial Page Editor for the Providence Journal Bulletin since 1989 and Assistant Editor of the editorial page at the Los Angeles Times from 1982-86, left Rhode Island this summer to become an Associate Editor working out of Washington, DC. During the Carter Administration, Terzian spent a year writing speeches for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. A judge last year for the Media Research Center's annual Linda Ellerbee Awards, Terzian wrote in a late September column: "If Clinton has been harassed by the press on the subject of Gennifer Flowers, or his variable descriptions of his military career, it has escaped my attention. What he knew, when he knew it, what he did, and with whom are fundamental questions that have never been asked of the man who would be President. You can imagine the reaction if George Bush's purported mistress furnished tapes of their naughty chit-chat. Or if witnesses persisted in contradicting his stories about avoiding national service.
"And that is precisely the problem. For the most part, journalistic bias against Bush, and in favor of Clinton, is so obvious, so pervasive, so natural to the press corps, that it is scarcely worth noticing. There is good reason why journalists react churlishly to the charge: The evidence is so graphic."
Moving Around. ABC News has moved Rex Granum up to Washington from Atlanta to fill in during Washington Bureau Chief George Watson's extended medical leave. Atlanta Bureau Chief since 1986, Granum was a Deputy Press Secretary in the Carter White House.... At The New York Times, Jack Rosenthal, Editorial Page Editor since 1986, has taken command of the Times Magazine. During the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, Rosenthal served as Executive Assistant to the Undersecretary of State and later as Assistant Director for public information at the Justice Department.
Schumer Shifts. Congressman Charles Schumer, a liberal Democrat from New York, has gained a media veteran just as he lost another to the Fourth Estate. John Wolf, a Washington producer for the Fox News Service for two years, has come aboard as Press Secretary. Before joining Fox, the National Journal reported that Wolf spent five years as an assignment editor and writer in CNN's New York bureau.....Meanwhile, NBC has hired James Rowe III, Chief Counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice chaired by Schumer, as the new Vice President and counsel for the network's Washington office.
Bye-Bye to Bonior. After two years as the Press Secretary in U.S. Representative David Bonior's House Majority Whip office, UPI veteran Michael Freedman has moved downtown to become Director of Public Information at George Washington University. Before coming to Capitol Hill, Roll Call reported that Freedman "was Vice President and Managing Editor for the broadcast division of United Press International in Washington where he planned and produced the radio network coverage of the 1988 Democratic and Republican National Conventions."
