Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!we13!otuxa!ll1!sb1!diy From: diy@sb1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Reagan's Press Conference Message-ID: <128@sb1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 12:31:25 EDT Article-I.D.: sb1.128 Posted: Wed Jul 27 12:31:25 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 10:10:25 EDT Lines: 47 I have no great love for Reagan, but I have to admit that I agree with him on one idea that he mentioned one time...The media making "much ado about nothing". It seems that since Watergate every president must now sacrifice someone in his staff to the media gods: Nixon and everybody else in his group Carter and Bert Lance Now Reagan and the Debate Papers It just seems to me that there is a general attitude among the press corps that there is something going on, that everybody is hiding something. I wonder, does this scenario take place: Editor: OK, today's assignments...Johnson, hang out by Senator Jones house, and see if any suspicious characters ever come there. Wilson, check all the bank records of the heads of our state departments. See if they have been withdrawing a lot of money lately...might be a good story there. Jackson, check the family trees of the city council! By God, I'll bet we'll find that the mayor's fourth cousin on his paternal grandmother's side is also employed by the city somewhere. Nepotism!!! It's our sacred duty to guard against it! Martin, you go through all the trash cans in the governor's mansion. We are the watchdog for the public, and no stone must be left unturned,no nook or cranny left unooked or crannied, no private letter or conversation must not be publicized, cause we've got to let the public know!!! ad nauseum, etc, so on so forth... Don't get me wrong, I really do believe that the press should serve as a watchdog of sorts. I'm against MAKING news as opposed to reporting it! And everything I've heard and seen from the media is smelling more and more like news created. And it's getting more and more biased. Does anybody believe for one minute that the Washington Press Corps is totally unbiased towards Reagan??? I could be wrong, or not looking at it correctly. I invite comment! I've got an open mind! WHO WATCHES THE WATCHDOG?? DENNIS