Secret Sources

January, 1988

People don't much like the press even in the best of times, and in times like these, after a monsoon of scandal, a general disgust with journalists erupts. "Unfair!" cried about two thirds of the people Gallup polled concerning the reports on where Gary Hart was probably planting his stem. And 70 percent of that group said they didn't appreciate the bushwhacker tactics the reporters had used to get the story, either. "The sharks are in a feeding frenzy," complained Pat Robert...