Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scripps's grandsons, who inherited his empire and vote 80% of Scripps-Howard stock, trespass on editorial prerogative. In fact, they are scarcely interested. From the chain's third head quarters in Cincinnati. Grandson Charles W. Scripps. 42, board chairman of the controlling E. W. Scripps Co., is concerned mainly with implementing a directive handed down by his grandfather: "Never do business except at a profit." Says Charles Scripps: "We're constantly watching the profit picture. The minute you let up, the profits go down...
...Appeal waited until 1954 to endorse Kefauver, then changed its mind and opposed him two years ago. The Appeal does not lack for courage. Circulating in an area preponderantly segregationist, it nevertheless printed an editorial of its own on the Mississippi riots that was fully as forthright as the chain editorial spun out of Washington...
...Cincinnati, the two Scripps-Howard papers are so independent that the chain does not consider Cincinnati a true monopoly, although it owns the only two dailies in town. The morning Enquirer has been a chain possession since 1956, but Publisher Roger Ferger does not go to the annual meetings (he is not invited) and does not receive the Washington-written editorials (he would not run them). Nor does the Scripps-Howard lighthouse beam from the Enquirer's masthead. The Enquirer endorsed Ohio Republican William O'Neill for Governor in 1958, the Post & Times-Star supported Democrat Mike...
However handsomely the Scripps-Howard chain as a whole meets its found er's injunction to show a profit, it frequently falls short of what he would have liked it to be. Its canned editorials not only relieve the editors of reaching their own conclusions about national and inter national affairs, but also often fall on deaf or mystified ears. "They write editorials about national stories that haven't even appeared in the paper," laments a housewife from Albuquerque, where the chain operates the evening Tribune. Because many Scripps-Howard papers use only the chain-owned U.P.I, wire...
...then, some chain member still flashes signs of the old crusading fire, historically a hallmark of Scripps-Howard papers. Two Scripps-Howard Washington reporters dug up some of the first pay dirt in the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The Wash ington Daily News has crusaded loudly against expensive junkets and payroll padding by U.S. Congressmen. On the editorial side, Scripps-Howard's Washington-based editorialists have come out for sanity in the federal budget, against unilateral tax cuts, against wasting troops in Laos ("We cannot save a far-off country which doesn't care whether it is saved...