Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era by David Altheide

Author:David Altheide [Altheide, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138511996
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

Of course, more allegations would be made—Lance’s misuse of a company airplane, his involvements with a convicted swindler, as well as charges that he helped engineer a “cover-up” of certain information about his banking past. Nevertheless, the key to many of the charges against Lance, and the one the press focused on, was the personal overdraft issue. Senator Eagleton made this point clear on September 19 during his questioning of a staff member who had compiled information about Lance’s financial past but who had not provided these data to the committee during the first confirmation hearing. After taking the staff member to task for not divulging all he knew to the SCGA earlier, Eagleton stated:

The linchpin of this case from day one has been the overdrafts. If there had been no overdrafts, if there had been no attention paid to overdrafts, all of the other matters that have been thrown in here … might have been a titillating three-hour, at most, hearing on some balmy and warm afternoon in July. It is overdrafts that made this case what it has become, because it was the overdrafts that when described by the headlines and lead stories on the evening news—those overdrafts hit home to rural and real-life Americans. (Hearings 1977:4, 1381)

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