Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In this dreary, low-level accomplishment, the Commission saw "the greatest danger" to freedom. The giants of communication would either have to put their houses in order, or people might one day ask the Government to do it for them. Obviously government interference, "a last resort," would be a remedy...
How Now? "What can be done?" the Commission asked-and confessed that its conclusions were not startling. Its plan was full of hope that the press might still add a cubit to its stature.
It was a difficult document in more ways than one. The first draft was written by Archibald MacLeish, the final one by Chairman Robert Maynard Hutchins and Robert D. Leigh (director of the Commission staff). In between, every line was "hammered out in conference and correspondence." What survived was, presumably...
Many an editor would wonder why the Commission failed to name names, except in obvious or innocuous cases of the misuse of freedom. He would note many a contradiction (e.g., in its preoccupation with the evils of monopoly, the Commission overlooked such cities as Boston, where eight competing papers give...
For the time and money, and the caliber of the men, it was a disappointing report. But in its peroration, written by Philosopher Hocking, the Commission for once rose to the level of its argument. "The journalist," said he, "sometimes reflects that his art is one of improvisation, and that...