The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control

ISBN: 9780029217504

定价: 72.00

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Sometimes an exposure involves an abuse so blatant or titillating
that it blazes its own path to recognition. But more often??? the
uncovering of a scandal requires a great cooperative act of percep-
tion that ripples across society.
The most crucial level of perception is that of the press itself.
If the press at large ignores a fledgling expose??? if editors scorn its
incompleteness or fail to grasp its importance??? if reporters do not
jump in to widen the beachhead??? if press conferences do not con-
front officials over it??? if columnists do not elaborate its ramifica-
tions??? then it will not survive to reach those levels where public
advocates take it up??? where investigative agencies begin to grind???
where mass opinion demands redress.
Rightly do newsmen rail against bureaucratic secrecy??? political
cover-up??? and judicial hostility??? but the great graveyard of investi-
gative stories is to be found in apathetic newsrooms. In The Presi-
dent Who Failed Clark Mollenhoff has swept together out from the
dark corners of the Carter administration facts that myopic editors
have failed to perceive??? facts that should have been laid out on the
front pages for readers to ponder. Yet??? these facts have been
Largely discarded or ignored in editorial offices across the fifty
states. ~
The picture that emerges is not one that America really wants
to see so soon after Watergate. Americans have been rocked by