Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Communists captured Shanghai, Wang returned to resume editing Ta Rung Pao. Reporters who unwittingly persisted in the old independent approach to the news were quickly set straight. A fortnight ago, Editor Wang and one of his staffers pleaded guilty on Page One to an "irresponsible attitude" in covering a speech by Communist General Chou Enlai. The irresponsibility: publishing the story without submitting it in advance for revision by "the person involved...
Last week Editor Wang's staff pleaded guilty again in an editorial: Ta Rung Pao had been so dull that the "comparatively backward elements" whom the Communists are seeking to convert "do not like to read the paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had turned out to be untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly...
...this week, the number of newspapers in the U.S. zone had jumped from 57 to 198; in Bavaria alone, 77 new papers had rushed into print. The ugly note in the new dawn of press freedom was that many of the newcomers were former Nazi and super-nationalist editors and publishers, originally barred because of unsavory political records. Max Willmay, who used to publish Julius Streicher's anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, was now pub lishing two Bavarian papers. Dr. Othmar Best, editor of the Deutsche Allgemeim Zeitung in its Nazi heyday, had started the Nlirnberg Neue Kurier...
Watching the first night football game ever played in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (before 40,000 spectators), Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
...Stanford University. With a budget of $150,000, the elected executive committee of the ASSU does not try to influence publications' editorial policies, it has a controlling had on their finances and supports an unwritten law that the Daily prints no sex or crime stories. Once the Daily editor himself trial, but no mention of it was made on the newspaper's pages...