An Enemy of the Press

Capable of Honor, by Allen Drury. Doubleday, $5.95

Criticism of the Liberal press is usually dismissed, in the Liberal press, as an affront to journalistic virtue. Off and on over the years, and with unflagging thoroughness since the 1964 election, media spokesmen have slurred their antagonists as cranks who hate “the press” and are loath to have their stupidities honestly reported. (“But how can you be ‘fair’ to Goldwater when he says things like. . .”) Because the complaints originate chiefly with people outside the profession, this gambit has for the most part been successful.

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Capable of Honor, by Allen Drury. Doubleday, $5.95

Criticism of the Liberal press is usually dismissed, in the Liberal press, as an affront to journalistic virtue. Off and on over the years, and with unflagging thoroughness since the 1964 election, media spokesmen have slurred their antagonists as cranks who hate “the press” and are loath to have their stupidities honestly reported. (“But how can you be ‘fair’ to Goldwater when he says things like. . .”) Because the complaints originate chiefly with people outside the profession, this gambit has for the most part been successful.