Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVEN before the photoengravers finally voted to end the strike, many a cost-conscious observer had begun to calculate the final bill that New York would have to pay for its news blackout. The Publishers Association totted up "known overall losses" of $178,900,000. New York's Commerce and Industry Association countered with the whopping figure of $250 million and called it "conservative." As if determined to have the last word, the publishers answered that "the financial setback sustained in the city as a result of the strike is so staggering that it defies any reasonable estimate...
...blackout is easier to follow than Kafka's story line, but Welles keeps right on its tail. One fine morning, "without having done anything wrong," a bank clerk named Joseph K. (Tony Perkins) is arrested-or is it all just a bad dream? Two plainclothesmen burst into his bedroom, order him to dress, refuse to say what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested...
...International Typographical Union's strike against four New York daily newspapers and the publishers' lockout at the other three is a disaster. The effects of the information blackout, now in its forty-seventh day, have been enormously destructive to the city's social political and economic life. As for the closing down of the unstruck papers, it is inexcusable; many of the injurious consequences of the strike would vanish if the Post, the Mirror, and the Herald-Tribune would get back into print tomorrow, as they easily could. The strike itself is a more complex matter. The dispute over...
...policy, in any event, is spottily enforced. Earlier this fall, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Daily News for eight days, none of the other papers closed down. Also, and more importantly, the publishers ignored their responsibility to the public when they chose to complete the press blackout. With three newspapers the city could at least keep an eye on its own government; and some of the economic effects of the strike, such as the slump in the entertainment business and the plight of 300 blind news-boys, would be mitigated...
Rising Tide. The news blackout did not affect syndicated columnists working out of New York, except to cost them their Manhattan outlets. The same held true for New York newspaper news services; their familiar bylines continued to appear out of town. Editions of New York pa pers published beyond New York, such as the Times's West Coast edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted...