ABSTRACT
from Oregon state prosecutors for her part in the assault on Nancy Kerrigan, the New York Times reported that more American journalism students want to be “public relations spokespersons” than print reporters or editors. What the Times called the “widespread interest in a career in image-making among young people,” fostered by the on-camera appear¬ances of glamorous presidential “mouthpiece” George Stephanopoulos, “uber-publicist” Pat Kingsley (who represents Tom Cruise), and Warren Cowan, the Hollywood press agent “befriended by clients from Rita Hay worth to Sylvester Stallone,” 1 has apparently displaced the allure of investigative reporting á là Woodward and Bernstein, and the frantic, adrenaline-pumping rush to meet deadlines in newsrooms from Front Page to Mary Tyler Moore.
