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...cool, modern "chamber jazz" groups, McCoy feels they are doomed, because "people want nostalgia today. I cater to the 40-year-olds who have expense accounts and memories, not to kids who buy Cokes and hot dogs...
According to Taste. Cleveland's two remaining papers cater to both the cautious and flamboyant tastes of the city. The perky Press and News, under Editor Louis Seltzer, leans heavily on exposeés (example: policemen eating their meals in local brothels) and promotions (example: annual parties for Clevelanders celebrating golden wedding anniversaries), occasionally irritates Scripps-Howard brass by passing up the chain's canned editorials and features. Against the Press and News, the Plain Dealer is solid and conservative, gives complete and accurate, but low-key, coverage to the news...
...highly readable, well documented and thoroughly logical words Cater makes a very impressive case against believing everything you read in the newspapers. Some of it is put there because a reporter needs a story. Some of it gets in because a Washington policy-maker is having a quarrel and needs public support (but the other side of the argument may not make the story.) A great deal of it gets in because of the constant competition for public attention in Washington...
...critique, not a cure. The author argues that the old rule of objectivity has long since become a dead letter and would not be viable even if it could be revived. Nor is the shibboleth of "equal time, equal space" for conflicting views an adequate yardstick. What Cater asks is greater awareness within the press corps of the enormous power it holds and of the manifold ways in which that power and its holders can be used. The mechanical pitfalls in the way of commuting the "truth" from Washington to the reader who moves his lips can only...
Frequently the authors hold up a little flag bearing the legend: "See, we can underestimate dangers and be optimistic, too." But recurrently they hark back to a theme which Douglass Cater recorded as part of a 1946 address by Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older member of the partnership" as he styles himself, compared the nations of the West to Leonidas' troops at Thermopylae and suggested that they "comb their golden hair in the sunlight and prepare to die bravely." A little bit of this sort of Everett Dirksen brand eloquence goes an awfully long...