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In defense of cover-ups.
"It's not the crime, it's the cover-up." That may turn out to be the most overused media cliche of the year. Like so many other morsels of media wit and wisdom it is clever, memorable, worldly-wise and wrong--at best a half-truth. Of course you can make a case that the cover-up is always worse than the crime in the media's eyes, since by definition a cover-up means keeping information out of the hands of (at a minimum) the media. Understandably, they themselves regard nothing as being worse than that. But to anyone with a smidgen of moral discrimination no such blanket statement could ever be made. Indeed, a moment's thought will persuade us that any cover-up which was ...
- MIT, Harvard cops deny they cover up crimes.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Hoffman, Paul February 9, 1998 700+ words
...denied withholding crime information after...have alleged serious crimes committed on campus...produced an annual crime report since 1975...university that wants to cover up crime," Glavin said...disclose reports of crimes and the proposed...
- Death Becomes Them.(Nation; COVER STORY)(crime novels)(Cover story)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Jones, Malcolm August 17, 2009 700+ words
...also tickle them to see that crime stories--especially those...novelists, as well as a true-crime anthology. Black Lizard paperbacks...adjacent genres, and Hard Case Crime publishes a splendid line of...all boasting wonderfully lurid cover art (half-clad dames, snarling...
- INSURER COVERS VIOLENT CRIME ASSAULT, KIDNAPPING OR ROBBERY AWAY FROM WORK IS...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 26, 1994 700+ words
...workplace insurance to cover victims of violent crime outside the office...from work. Violent crime is now the leading...policies that usually cover employees only at...family, but it does cover attacks by former colleagues. A violent crime occurs every 22...
- Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Tanenbaum, Leora October 11, 1993 700+ words
...How the Press Covers Sex Crimes. By Helen Benedict...is the worst crime?" This is an...feel about the crime and themselves...and other sex crimes, while certainly...the hook. Sex Crimes by Alice Vachss...charge of sex-crime prosecution...
- Amnesty bill covers only political crimes, Drilon says.(Metro and National News)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin December 18, 2003 700+ words
...sought by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo covers only political crimes, not cases involving graft and corruption. A general amnesty grant covers only political crimes, or those committed in pursuit of a political...
- In Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Pollitt, Katha December 21, 1992 700+ words
...Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes (Oxford, $22.95...shape media coverage of crimes of sexual violence...press constructs sex crimes according to two possible...for improving the sex-crime beat: injecting feminist...
- Group charges high-level state cover-up of Patton crimes; Governor asked to...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 8, 1990 700+ words
GROUP CHARGES HIGH-LEVEL STATE COVER-UP OF PATTON CRIMES; GOVERNOR ASKED TO INVESTIGATE SAN BERNARDINO, Calif...Mental Health Department officials have been conspiring to cover up serious criminality rampant at Patton state psychiatric...
- RUSSIA: SENIOR FSB OFFICER PROVIDED COVER FOR ORGANIZED-CRIME GROUP.
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database June 20, 2001 700+ words
...military court has begun hearing the case of FSB Colonel Igor Kushnikov, who allegedly provided protective cover for the Golyanov organized-crime group, "Versiya," No. 24, reported. In addition, the charges allege that Kushnikov provided operational...
