Word: factualism
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...committee endorsed the President's plan to consolidate in one agency the separate information services now operated by the International Information Administration, Mutual Security Agency and Technical Cooperation Administration. But it warned against the high-pressure huckster touch: "American broadcasts and printed materials should concentrate on objective, factual news reporting . . . The tone and content should be forceful and direct, but a propagandist note should be avoided...
...sense of obligation to evaluate the news in the light of these convictions. We have seen a similar approach being shared by an increasing number of people who deal with the news. One recent example is an editorial in Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post, which said: "The pure factual objectivity which most newspapers have sought has often been a will-o'-the-wisp . . . Who, what, where, when and why no longer answer all the questions. 'What does it mean?' is an important question that newspapers will try, increasingly, to answer...
...fighter, he is now an arrogant and not very likable character.* The Desert Fox focused on the battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats flashes back some 18 months to depict the 1941 siege of Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart for his alcoholic old ex-schoolteacher (Robert Newton), a private with the Australian 9th Division...
...newspapers mixed news, the interpretation of news and the opinions of their editors and writers throughout most of the material that they printed. The newsman of those days was a sort of essayist . . . Gradually editors swung around to a new theory: 'Let's keep our news columns factual and objective . . .' The reporter was told his first paragraph . . . should tell the 'who, what, when, where and why' -and no more...
...pure factual objectivity which most newspapers have sought has often been a will-o'-the-wisp . . . For example, few news articles worth reading can be shorn of all adjectives. Yet whenever a reporter writes of the 'beautiful' Rita Hayworth, 'scowling' John L. Lewis, 'Millionaire' Charles E. Wilson or 'Red-hunt ing' Joe McCarthy, he is influencing the reaction of readers in a somewhat nonobjective way, even though he can defend his choice of words with undisputed proof. Honest newspapermen will admit, also, that they unavoidably influence reader reaction by [the placement...