Every once in a while, it suddenly becomes clear that someturning point has been reached in politics or in American socialhabits. Such a watershed moment has quietly sneaked up on us in thepress.
We were never very good about policing or criticizing ourselves.There was at best a wonderful bonding of comrades and at worst aself-righteous thin-skinnedness. Who would dare to criticize us?
But listen to some of the voices - voices of anger, yet also ofdisappointment - of our very best journalists: "How many saw ABC News' use of a faked videotape to jazz up theircoverage of the Felix Bloch spy story," asked Roger Mudd, now withPBS, at the convention here of the …
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