The Nation - News from May 7, 1985

The news media are more self-critical than in past years, but the press still needs to make a hostile public aware of the difficulties in news reporting, top newspaper executives said. “People out in the world don’t know how hard it is to get the truth,” said Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post. Bradlee was one of four panelists discussing press credibility at the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. convention in Miami Beach. Inaccuracy, unfairness and arrogance of the press are the main criticisms from the public, said panel moderator Louis D. Boccardi, president and general manager of the Associated Press.