Word: dopesterism
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THE INSIDE-DOPESTER is an other-directed type who in political style is just the opposite of the inner-directed indignant. The inside-dopester knows, but he doesn't care. (High competence, low affect.) Riesman takes his text for the inside-dopesters from St. Paul, Acts 17:21: "(For...
Another variety of inside-dopester wants to know the inside dope because it helps him get status and approval in his peer group. Inside-dopesters frequently change the content of their politics in response to changed fads in their peer groups.
The Choice. Newsmen suspect that most of the troubles stem directly from the Herald's strange ownership setup. Prosperous Odhams Press, a private publishing house which ballyhooed the Herald into big-time circulation in the early '30s, owns 51% of the stock. The Trades Union Congress owns the...
In 1928 the News fired him, because "I was saying the right things in the wrong way and doing a lot of drinking," and later he joined the Free Press. As editorial director, Bing masterminded a story on an American Legion parade that won five Free Press reporters the Pulitzer...
In Manhattan, Inside Dopester Drew Pearson got a silver medal as Father of the Year (for his food-for-Europe campaign) from 1943's Father of the Year, Dwight Eisenhower. Pearson also got a terse tut for slipping into the ceremony an Eisenhower-for-President plug. The general'...