ShareThisTed Knap, a longtime White House correspondent for Scripps Howard News Service who counted Robert Kennedy among his sources, has been inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.Knap, 87, covered six presidents and some of the biggest stories of his time -- including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. Knap even made it onto President Richard Nixon's notorious "enemies list."He was honored April 12 as one of five inductees into the hall at a luncheon in Greencastle, Ind.Knap began his Indiana news career 58 years ago at the now-defunct Indianapolis Times, where he made a name for his stories uncovering corruption in the state highway commission, the misuse of union funds, absentee voter fraud and other scandals.In Washington, Knap served as president of the White House Correspondents Association. He reported from Moscow on the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and covered President Jimmy Carter's travels around the world. He started the weekly White House Watch column in 1975, a Scripps feature that continues today.At his induction into the hall of fame, Knap criticized the current tendency of the press to assume that all politicians are crooks and liars. He also lambasted the tendency of the media in general to publish or broadcast allegations that reporters or others have not substantiated convincingly.Knap retired from the Scripps Howard Washington bureau in 1985.(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
Scripps veteran Knap makes journalism hall of fame
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