Letters to the Editor
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The Media Today
For about three years beginning in l950 I worked for the news director (Hollis Seavey) at the MBS radio station in Washington, D.C. There were three or four correspondents on the staff, including Joe McCaffrey who covered the Hill. These were hard-working reporters with integrity. They never socialized with the powers that be in Washington. They lived in middle-class neighborhoods in Arlington and Falls Church, and they were truly the "working press." Today reporters are celebrities along with the people they cover, and are pictured together with well-known public figures at parties, galas etc. And we wonder why the press does not speak out as Americans expect them to do. I wonder if it is possible for the mainstream media to return to doing what we hv always expected- seeking the truth and being watchdogs for our freedoms. Perhaps the Web is our answer. Sincerely