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...Confidence Game. Guidance sessions (which sometimes bring more than 400 newsmen to the Press Club to hear a big wheel) often permit correspondents to seem wiser in print with "dope" stories than they really are. And the confidence game has also brought a great evil in its train: the camaraderie between officials and newsmen encourages Government officials to keep facts off the record which should be published, enables them to dodge responsibility for phony stories, permits unscrupulous bureaucrats and politicos to backstab opponents with impunity. Furthermore, even competent correspondents who are constantly being "guided" by off-the-record conferences occasionally...
...that the "real news of what is happening in the Capital ... is more & more limited to mouth-to-mouth circulation"), big policy stories follow a pattern. First there is the informed tip, carried by favored columnists and correspondents, next the background briefing, resulting in a rash of dope stories. Then, if the idea has been well received, comes the fanfare of formal announcement...
...take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert S. Allen dished out a full portion of his own inside dope: "Vice President Barkley is in serious danger of going blind. [He] has advanced cataracts on both his eyes...
...York's traffic in drugs-$100 million a year in street sales-was the nation's worst. But eight other cities showed alarming increases in dope consumption: Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington and Baltimore...
...Brooklyn student testified that a boy dope peddler in his high school boasted of making from $300 to $400 a day. "I used to be the bookie in the school," said the witness. "He lost enough money to me so he should be telling the truth...