Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Wirtz begins by telling a few jokes.

Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz attacks the press at the Overseas Press Club.. Among his targets, reporters, he says, who misuse quotations, or seek to focus on scandal rather than positive news. He decries imbalanced reporting that seeks to sell newspapers rather than report what he calls, the real news.

Questions and answers follow.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 70704
Municipal archives id: T1893

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