This text is based on one-to-one interviews conducted from 1991 to 1993 with Washington TV News correspondents, editors, and producers. In their own words these news professionals describe the reduction in resources devoted to covering Congress, the downgrading of the State Department and Supreme Courtbeats, news reporters' conflicts with the Clinton Whitehouse, and the difficulties in obtaining information from government officials of every rank. Often expressing frustration - and even hostility - toward the New York-based ...
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This text is based on one-to-one interviews conducted from 1991 to 1993 with Washington TV News correspondents, editors, and producers. In their own words these news professionals describe the reduction in resources devoted to covering Congress, the downgrading of the State Department and Supreme Courtbeats, news reporters' conflicts with the Clinton Whitehouse, and the difficulties in obtaining information from government officials of every rank. Often expressing frustration - and even hostility - toward the New York-based executives who "manage" the evening news, Washington's broadcast journalists decry sinking standards, as their ability to inform citizens is sacrificed to material calulated to preserve dwindling audiences.
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Very good. 370 pages. Notes, index. Inscribed by the author (Reiss--signed "Mitchell"). One of the Woodrow Wilson Center Special Studies. Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Today, former Soviet republics threaten to gain control over nuclear weapons sited on their territories, and reports on North Korea, Pakistan, India, and Iraq reveal current or recent weapon development programs. In this climate, Nuclear Proliferation After the Cold War offers a timely assessment of the prospects for nuclear nonproliferation.