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...professional journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Editor Isaacs charged that more and more newsmen are succumbing to the compromising blandishments of pressagents, promoters, politicians and others whose objective with newsmen is always the same: to influence what is printed. Asked Isaacs: "How can we claim integrity when newspapers employ men whose services are for sale to outsiders...
...television show sponsored by the tracks.'' One Texas editor, said Isaacs, "in a letter to me, said that one of the best names in the oil industry has several reporters on each paper in a certain town on his enterprises' payroll." In Houston three reporters were employed by the scandal-ridden housing authority and paid $75 a month each to write press releases. When Isaacs was managing editor of the late St. Louis Star-Times, he put a stop to the practice of letting news photographers take wedding pictures for a fee. "The idea got around that...
When it comes to the royal family, the phlegmatic British go all soppy. Newspapers employ droves of columnists to simper publicly over the beauty of small Prince Charles's dimples, to sigh over the elegance of Prince Philip's taste in haberdashery. When the Queen came home a fortnight ago, after six months' absence on her round-the-world tour, the sighs became a gale. Sample from Author Beverley Nichols: "At last she came to the Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world...
...Israel's controlled economy, wage boosts for the doctors would mean another round of wage increases (the last were granted in 1952) for all professional people in government employ. The government, scared of a spiraling inflation, flatly refused the doctors' latest demands...
...service in Congress . . . Most bills bear the names of committee chairmen. The point, therefore, is an altogether technical one. But the plain fact is that, for example, bills for the benefit of veterans did bear my name as author ... I was the original author of the legislation that established "Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" . . . The so-called "rabbit bill" was of benefit, it is true, only to a comparatively few small farmers. But to them it was important...