Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bags in hand, when the message came. No, he was not to fly off to Maine in pursuit of a story on astronomy. On this Monday morning he was to hurry back to the Time-Life Building and begin work on a fascinating and complex medical story. As sociate Editor Frederic Golden returned to his office and joined the other members of TIME'S medicine team: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researchers Adrianne Jucius and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Together they began to sift through the evidence and collect data for this week's cover story...
...court ordered both papers to print retractions; both refused. Said Sun Publisher Donald H. Patterson: "There is simply nothing to retract." Each newsman was ordered to pay $1,647 in court costs; the Times was weighing its response, but the Sun decided to pay. Said Managing Editor Paul Banker: "We don't want to appear defiant of the Soviet judicial system, such...
...breathlessness and hyperbole in the British press ? "We could get baby farms, mass-produced kids, 1984 six years early!" exclaimed London Daily Express Editor Derek Jameson? the Brown venture fell far short of ushering in a Brave New World. Like countless other women with fertility problems, Lesley Brown suffered from a fallopian tube disorder. In their al most fanatic insistence on secrecy, her doctors declined to say whether the tubes were missing or merely blocked. Whatever the trouble, it was apparently serious enough to prevent her from becoming pregnant...
...servant. The Express soon narrowed the search to Brown, and a cheek with neighbors confirmed that his wife was pregnant. EXCLUSIVE, the Express screamed on July 11, BABY OF THE CENTURY. The paper did not name the parents of the century, but most other details were there. Gloats Express Editor Derek Jameson: "There were Murdoch, the Mail, the National Enquirer putting in bids of ? 300,000, and there we were-out getting the story by old-style journalism...
...doctrine of playing to one's audience overlooks the fact that a newspaper's primary function is to present the news. "News" is of course distinct from "truth," in that no reporter or editor can be totally objective; he or she can present only a personalized account, a "story" in the true sense of the word, about some event. Still, the good paper strives to be as objective as possible, realizing that its editorial integrity depends on its ability to stay dispassionate. The paper that abandons this course--the one that adopts a "please the reader" philosophy in relation...