Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of TIME'S Letters section (and, indeed, of the daily newspapers) well know, TIME has been hotly criticized in recent weeks for its coverage of unpleasant news in some countries friendly to the U.S., notably for stories of the economic crisis in Bolivia, the aftermath of revolution in Cuba, and government corruption in the Philippines. Replying to this criticism has given us the opportunity to restate some truths about TIME, and I thought you might like to see where we stand. The following is the text of one reply to a critic...
...alluded disparagingly to our coverage of the Philippines and Bolivia. I could burden you with documentation on the painstaking job of professional reporting that backed up the stories in question, but I will say simply this: we have seen no evidence that we were wrong in either case...
...TIME is to try to get at the facts and their meaning, to find out what's really going on-in the U.S. or in Bolivia, in art or in politics. As responsible journalists in a free society, we take our job with the utmost seriousness, and I know of no publication that devotes more effort to covering the news and, indeed, to the uncovering of it. Thus, we are likely to be singled out among journals and be ourselves the subject of comment. And often it will mean that as practitioners of responsible journalism we shall be dealing...
...Ambassador to Italy. He attacked her "relationship to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE," declaimed about the "intertwining of Luce policy and Eisenhower policy in conducting the vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used as provocation for riots in Bolivia (TIME, March 16)-was a sinister attempt to cater to Brazilian designs on Bolivian territory...
...Trotskyite, or antiStalinist, Communists hold 14 seats in a 100-man House of Representatives. The only other place in the world where Trotskyites have any real influence is Bolivia...