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Investigative reporter to speak
By Carolyn Lamberson
Emerald Associate Editor
When Pultizcr Prize-winning
journalist lack Anderson speaks
in the EMU on Sunday, he will
discuss “News Behind the
Headlines.” an area Anderson
knows very well.
Anderson, a syndicated col
umnist with the Washington
Post, said in a recent interview
from his Washington. D.C. of
fice he receives information
from a large network of sources,
much of which is usually not
released to the press. And while
some may criticize Anderson
and other journalists for using
secret or sensitive information,
Anderson said he does it
because he believes the public
is entitled to know what is real
ly going on.
Anderson was largely respon
sible for breaking the Iran/Con
tra affair in the United States,
even though he sat on the story
for about seven months. He first
published the story in April
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1986 The issue did not reach
the forefront of the Amercian
media until Novemeber of that
year.
“I sat on it (the story) because
(’resident Reagan personally,
and high government officials
pursuaded me that they were
trying to get our hostages free
and that premature disclosure
of their attempts and their deal
ings with Ayatollah Khomeini
could disrupt the negotiations
and could even lead to the death
of the hostages. I didn’t want
that on my conscience, so 1 sat
on the story," Anderson said.
He eventually released his in
formation because of moral con
cerns. Anderson believed "the
Reagan administration was
deceiving the American people
about what was going on. And I
thought the time had come to
tell the whole story — to tell it
because the American people
are the real soverigns and are
entitled to know what's hap
pening," he said.
When the government
misleads, when the government
lies to the people as the govern
ment did in the Iran/Contra af
fair. then I believe my obliga
tion must be to the people and
not the government,” he
continued.
While Anderson is sure the
White House didn't like his
publishing the story, it hasn’t
affected his flow of information,
he said.
"My sources are my sources,
they do not belong to the White
House.” Anderson said. "I call
the White House, not to find out
what’s happening, but to tell
them what's happening and ask
them to comment.”
In the wake of controversy
surrounding their treatment of
Sens. Gary Hart, Joe Biden and
Judge Douglas Ginsberg, the
media have come under fire as
being unfair and prying too far
into the private lives of public
officials.
"I think America’s reporters
are the most objective in the
world. They are trained to be
objective and they are trained to
be accurate," Anderson said.
However, he does admit that
journalists have some biases,
which may influence what they
write. That's a human quality
and reporters are human, he ad
ded. "I think it's almost im
possible to write stories com
pletely aloof from your own
background, and your own
beliefs and your own convic
tions." he said.
As for prying into public
figures' private lives, Anderson
sees the press as having an im
portant role in screening poten
tial candidates and public
officals.
"The flaws and misdoings of
public officals should be expos
ed. People who seek high office
— the president of the United
States, or Supreme Court justice
— must be screened," Ander
son said. Because a candidate is
asking to be a leader, the
American people have a right to
know if his or her record is
clean, he continued.
If the press makes a poor
judgement call or reveals
something that is too secret or
sensitive, Anderson said public
response is often enough to cur
tail that kind of reporting
"The public will respond and
will respond with such anger
that the press will behave, but I
don't want to give the govern
ment power to suppress the
press," he said.
Freedom of the press is the
Constitutional right that helps
preserve all others by enabling
the press to expose when those
rights have been violated,
Anderson said. It is this aspect
that draws the most criticism
from people who want to curtail
that freedom, he said.
Anderson has a staff of about
12 reporters who work for him
and dig up stories that become
material for his daily column,
which is read by an estimated
three million people. The
reporters receive some training
from Anderson on how to get
reluctant sources talk, he said.
"We specialize in getting the
stories that others cannot get,”
Anderson said. "And some of
my reporters have more guts
than others.” he added.
Anderson’s speech is spon
sored by the Cultural Forum. He
will be in the EMU Ballroom at
8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are
available at the EMU Main Desk
at a cost of $3 for students and
$5 for the general public.
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