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Photographs, with their immediacy and verisimilitude, are the usual means of illustrating a news story and are a compelling part of TIME'S content every week. But for some stories, on the arcane complexities of arms control or international economics, for instance, or the abstractions of intellectual endeavor and emotional response, photography can seem too realistic, too specific to reflect and enhance the subject's nuances. For these stories, the editors often turn to the art world to solicit original work, including drawings, paintings, collages and prints, that can better evoke the meaning of the text. The Essay...
Although the staff viewed the mismanagement of the diaries affair as a reason to claim greater control of the magazine's content, the Stern management installed a more conservative and prudent editor, Peter Scholl-Latour, a former television commentator. Says he: "We have readers who are not as far left as is sometimes thought. I do not want to bore them with too much ideology." Scholl-Latour describes the antimissile movement as "a fashionable tendency," and his view is having an impact. Though the magazine continues to report on the movement enthusiastically, an Aug. 4 cover showed a hand...
Jackson becomes bitter when other black leaders, those he feels are content to serve as "trustees of the ghetto," dismiss him as opportunistic. "Part of our problem now is that some of our leaders do not seize opportunities," he says. "I was trained by Martin to be an opportunist...
...other hand, a Libyan ground offensive would be extremely difficult to carry out; the roads are bad in the best of times and impassable in heavy rain. The hope of most Western observers in N'Djamena is that Gaddafi will be content to occupy the northern third of Chad and press for a new Chadian government that would be more to his liking. In a television interview late last week, Gaddafi blandly denied that he was providing the Chadian rebels with anything but "moral" support, and called for negotiations between the rival forces in Chad...
...personnel. The importance of the case, they said, was that it prompted ethical debate about TV's treatment of women and other issues: the rise of show-business values and market research over news judgment; the role of consultants in shaping a newscast's style, cast and content; the concept of anchors as personalities rather than reporters. Those trends started in local news, but are spreading to the networks, according to some reporters. A CBS correspondent complains: "One executive refers to what we do as 'info-tainment...