Word: deskmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pussyfooting. Those who succeed will join huge reportorial staffs that bring suffocation coverage to any news event. Asahi has about 1,000 reporters and deskmen in its Tokyo office alone (v. 478 for the New York Times's headquarters staff), plus a fleet of 13 planes and helicopters to deploy them all over the country. Because Asahi prints as many as 139 editions round the clock and assigns specialists to virtually every aspect of each big story, there is enough work to keep everyone busy. All major papers send cadres to cover government offices and ministries...
...nearly twenty years, I.F. Stone has lived every journalist's dream. He was his own editor, publisher, and staff, and he printed the truth as he saw it. Unfettered by stockholders, managers, advertisers, or cautious deskmen, he has jousted with official Washington every week for nearly 1,000 weeks, and won far more often than he lost. This week he announced that he is closing down the paper because, at 64 "I can't be a five day bike racer any more...
...service has five editorial deskmen, seven full-time reporters and twelve stringers, including four whites. They operate under the experienced hand of George Earner, 40, the first black reporter ever to win the New York Press Association Award (for his account of the 1958 stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King in a department store). Working out of offices on lower Fifth Avenue and in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, the staff turns out an average of 5,000 words a day, consisting of five to eight stories plus a calendar of events...
With a $38,000 salary, a chauffeured limousine and a huge office on F Street -not to mention a fiefdom of almost 10,000 deskmen-the job sounds like a bureaucrat's dream. Recently, though, it seemed as if no one in the country was willing to take the burdensome post mired in controversy. It was fitting that the Nixon Administration finally had to conscript a man to head the Selective Service System...