Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misinterpretation of the early returns was a small part of a big problem that the A.P., brought up on strict factual reporting, still has to solve: how can it interpret complex news without losing its prized objectivity? Ex-A.P. man James B. ("Scotty") Reston, a topnotch interpretive reporter for the New York Times, and a guest speaker, let off a blast of steam on the subject: "I think [our] future depends on our developing adequate and intelligent means of explaining what is going on in the world. The news is getting more complicated every year...
...something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes an understanding of different people from different places and different income brackets, their backgrounds and their beliefs. However, merely throwing together a wide assortment of men is not enough. Texas has to have a chance to talk to Park Avenue; son of the milliner must...
Your reviewer of my book From the Heart of Europe [TIME, Sept. 20] found "disingenuous" my simple factual statement that one of the reasons why I am not a Marxist is "that I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction, and find any materialism inadequate." He would have been less disingenuous himself in his other sweeping strictures if he had also stated that on two occasions in that book I indicated that I sometimes find TIME anything but adequate in its treatment of fact, that I cited explicitly, as one of the enemies of international understanding, "the phony...
Kernel of Greatness. Today, at 64, Flaherty reaps the rewards of a pioneer who has never stopped pioneering. Before Nanook, factual films were mostly travelogues-patronizing glimpses of exotic peoples in far-off places. Flaherty concentrated on the struggles of man against his environment. Because of his choice of settings and subjects (Moana, in the South Seas; Man of Aran, on a remote island off the coast of Ireland; Elephant Boy, in India), he was sometimes attacked as a romanticist. The "realists" who belabored him later discovered that much of their own "realism" was merely a fad; Flaherty...
...This is not going to be any American Weekly with bare women and big microbes all over the place," said Ames. "We're going to try to do substantial and factual reporting...