Word: canham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peaceful co-existence with Russia is possible today, Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, told a Coffee Hour audience yesterday in Harkness Commons...
This statement set the problem, "to whom and what are newspapers responsible," before the group: Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Bob Eddy, telegraph press editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Nieman Fellow, Hugh Morris, state capital reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Nieman Fellow, and Douglas M. Fouquet '51, ex-president of the CRIMSON...
...Canham cited papers of the 19th Century which were biased and diverse in their coverage, and suggested that this right to "sound off" be encouraged in editorials. "News," he added, "should be presented with as dispassionate a view as possible...
...Hutch Forum Committee will present Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Robert Eddy N.F. of the St. Paul pioneer Press; E. Hugh Morris N.F. of the Louisville Courier Journal; and Douglas M. Fouquet '51, ex-president of the CRIMSON...
Said Editor Canham: "Close parallels have been drawn between the newspaper profession and such other registered and carefully qualified professions as medicine. But the parallels were false and dangerous: "Ideas must always be free, Tney must never be licensed . . " It made no difference, he added, whether licensing was by a government agency or by a self-regulating body of journalists. Said Canham: "Consider the great martyrs in the battle for freedom of the press. If their right to express their great ideas had depended on the vote of their own colleagues, many of them would have been voted...