Word: bayley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fund, in memory of Richard S. Welch '51, will probably go towards purchasing case studies on military intelligence problems. Bayley F. Mason '51, the K-School's associate dean for resources, said yesterday...
...anti-McCarthy reporter for the Milwaukee Journal during the 1950s. Bayley could have pointed an accusing finger at his colleagues from the era but instead, he explains the failures of the press sympathetically. Journalists made news out of McCarthy's charges, he says, because they came from a United States Senator. Papers desiring to investigate the accuracy of McCarthy's charges usually ran up against a shortage of time and research facilities. In any event, Bayley notes, news analysis was generally left to the editorial pages in those days...
...BAYLEY'S most insightful offer of circumstances mitigating the press comes with his discussion of McCarthy's uncanny ability to force himself into the news. Reporter after reporter testifies to McCarthy's manipulative skill, describing the Senator's skill at exploiting deadline pressure and competition within the news industry. He would release his accusations hours, or even minutes, before wire services sent out their releases, leaving them without time to investigate. And McCarthy released his charges simultaneously to several different wire and newspaper conduits, so that a failure to print a day's charges could lead to some newspaper...
...Press maintains that the American news media have improved since the 1950s. McCarthy's manipulations showed that reporting only what was said to the press and not what might have been the truth often led to bias and misinterpretation. Newspapers are no longer so vulnerable to sensationalizing slander, Bayley says. Thorough and effective news analysis no longer gets relegated to the editorial pages. The popularity of televised news has left investigative reporting as the "meat and potatoes" of print journalism. Increased staffs and decreased competition have allowed newspapers greater opportunity for research and more discretion about what, and when...
...since most of today's voters get the bulk of their news not from developed anaylsis, but from the one-liner world of tabloids and television. McCarthy and the Press even leaves some question about the efficacy of the vigorous reporting which did go on during the McCarthy era. Bayley found that those Wisconsin areas with newspapers which did oppose Senator McCarthy--with news analysis and editorials--saw a steady erosion of the Senator's support. Contrary to Bayley's assumptions, however, this bit of detail fails to show the strong guiding role of the press. Rather than the press...