No News Was Bad News
William Adams and Michael Joblove, in Was Bad News Policy Review (Winter 1980), 513 c st.
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
Between 1975 and 1979, after their "liberation" communist leader Pol Pot, an estimated 3 million Cambodians died from starvation, from disease, or by execution. This great human tragedy long went virtually unreported on evening network TV newscasts, say Adams, professor of public administration at George Washington University, and Joblove, a Duke University law student.
Cambodia's...