Wednesday, november4, 1931
daily nebraskan
page 5
Political comrades . . .
Continued from Page 4
Miss Jensen's newspaper, the Stamford Advocate, has
implicitly set its distance between itself and her. Despite
her denials, it reports that she has known Miss Boudin
for "seven or eight years.
All the journalistic profession needs right now is
another scandal. We have already had a pair of scandals
involving false reporting: The Janet Cooke case and the
Jimmy Carter "bugging" farce. Rita Jensen's story may
exemplify a subtler scandal: that of the watchdog that
didn't bark.
The story was right under Miss Jensen's nose. At the
very least, it is fair to surmise that she passed up some
interesting leads. Can you live with an active revolutionary
and not suspect a thing?
There is plenty of evidence that this sort of thing is not
at all unique. A new book by Robert Caro confirms old
rumors about the monumental crookedness of Lyndon
Johnson. A new book by David J. Garrow confirms old
rumors about Martin Luther King's Communist associates.
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In both cases it is hard to believe that subjects of the
books could have carried on as they did without at least
exciting suspicions along the way. Why did it take so long
for the truth to emerge? Where were the investigative
journalists?
One answer can be found in Benjamin Bradlee's book
Conversations With Kennedy. Bradlee, now editor of the
Washington Post, was a pal of Kennedy's. He admits he
had reason to believe the 1960 election was stolen from
Kennedy by Richard Daley in Illinois; he admits he dis
cussed with Kennedy the possibility of illegally leaking
confidential IRS data for political purposes.
When Richard Nixon was president, Ben Bradlee be
came the champion of investigative journalism; but when
John Kennedy was president, he practiced the opposite:
discretionary journalism.
Ideally, as Dan Rather puts it, journalists are "honest
brokers of information." But journalism in practice is far
from impersonal. Reporters often cover for people with
whom they are socially involved or politically allied.
Bradlee's book is not the only candid revelation on this
subject: the best is perhaps Jack Anderson's excellent
Confessions of a Muckraker.
For years now, the press has been remarkably
uncritical of the Left. Most of the exposes have been dir
ected against liberalism's enemies. We even have different
vocabularies for different kinds of exposes. To expose the
Right is investigative journalism." To expose the Left is
"McCarthyism."
As a result, the Left has gotten off easy. The Izzy
Stones are allowed to pass themselves off as "liberals,"
sometimes with the co-operation of liberals themselves.
And weird old crones who fly around on brooms are the
first to denounce "witch hunts."
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