Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines outside the White House to protest exclusion of known homosexuals from the civil service and the armed forces, has lately protested exclusion from the Poverty Program. Borrowing a device from the civil rights movement, homophiles have even issued lapel buttons bearing a small equality sign ( = ) on a lavender background...
Reagan's candidacy has already drawn the fire of the other G.O.P. hopefuls. "I don't intend to go into any background," says George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco, "except his complete and utter lack of qualifications." Says Laughlin Waters, former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and another moderate contender: "I'm all for on-the-job training but not at the gubernatorial level." Reagan has refused to be drawn into an argument with his fellow Republicans, says: "I will have no word of criticism for any Republican." He believes that California...
...Chicago Daily News Service, founded in 1898, is the oldest of the supplemental. It stresses background pieces, and with 14 correspondents abroad, it is strong on foreign coverage. To increase its 78 clients, most of them large metropolitan newspapers, the service is now running as many domestic stories as foreign. It is concentrating on sports, fashions and civil rights...
...year-old Chicago Tribune Press Service, which also draws on Reuters and the New York Daily News, sends out a heavy dose of Midwestern stories to 38 clients, all in the U.S. Running mostly background stories, the service often puts Trib reporters to work exclusively on wire stories; Trib Washington Bureau Chief Walter Trohan contributes as many as two or three columns a week. The Trib discourages editorial comment in stories. "We have clients in the North and South," says Editor-Manager Tom Burns, "and we have to please them...
...better than one," says San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall, "and three are better than two." Even when they decide not to run supplemental stories, editors quite often find them useful. "They are a tremendous help in evaluating events," says Miami News Editor Bill Baggs. "You get more background and diversity of opinion. They're most helpful to editorial writers...