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In the early 19th century, American journal- ism, like that of most of the world today, was primarily political, i.e.
William Lane
The group of three American carpenters and a dozen or so Nicaraguans stood for a moment smiling in the already intense morning sun. The bus that had dropped off the Americans slowly roared away on down the unpaved street and disappeared leaving a long veil of dust hanging in the air.
Bradford Burns
Four years ago this month when the triumphant Sandinistas entered Managua nobody expected the future to be easy. Decades of struggle against home grown op- pressors as well as foreign inter- veners had made Nicaraguans painfully aware of obstacles in the path of a poor people attempting to chart their own history.
MEDIA Edwin R. Bayley, Joe McCarthy and the Press (Pantheon Books, 1981).
The month of October holds a special place in Argentina's politi- cal astrology. It was on October 17, 1945, that Army officer Juan Per6n, then minister of labor, launched the movement that twice elected him president, stood be- hind him through 17 years of exile and returned him to the presidency in 1973.
Read NACLA, Lose Weight I want you to know that I have lost my job and did not plan to renew (money, you know). But when it comes down to actually tossing your renewal notice in the can, I've decided quite frankly I'd rather eat less for awhile than go without your spiritually satisfying, lucid clarification of what's hap- pening and what will happen in Central America and the United States.
Jack Spence
When elections were held in El Salvador on March 28, 1982, over 700 reporters were there to record the event through their unfamiliar eye. It has become particularly important to examine media coverage of that phenomenon, since new elections are projected for November 1983.
Judy Butler
One of the strongest examples of selective vision on the part of the U.S.
A slip of the tongue; a blatant revelation of what they're really thinking; a public admission of something we all know already. These are the kinds of statements that sometimes keep you chuck- ling all day, or shaking your head in disbelief and dismay.
Sources are crucial. And because they are, so is a reporter's longevity and experience.
Observing the consolidation of Cold War ideology in the early 1950s, Louis Hartz con- cluded what would become a classic history of American political thought with two questions: "Can a people 'born equal' ever understand peoples elsewhere that have to become so? Can it ever understand itself?"' Similar to Latin America in its wars to win independence from Spain, the United States did experience a politi- cal revolution. But, Hartz believed, lacking a feudal past, it never experienced the kind of political conflict that brings an existing social order fundamentally into question-the con- flicts that motivated the great European revolu- tions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security..