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From an article on "The Fetish of Atomic Secrecy," by Paul Block Jr., publisher of the Toledo Blade, in the August Harper's: "But if men within the atomic program . . . are trying to hurdle the secrecy wall in this manner and dump some of their problems in the public's lap, they are merely taking a leaf from the military's book...
...facts speak for themselves." Thoughtful newsmen know that the facts alone seldom can, that they speak clearly only when they are told in proper order and perspective-and thus interpreted-by an honest journalist. Nevertheless, many a U.S. editor still damns interpretive reporting and sticks to his fetish of "objectivity," though the briefest item in his newspaper may, in fact, be interpretive reporting. Last week Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post thought it time to read such editors a lecture on the facts of journalistic life. Said the Post...
...Fetish foods for health and strength-highly advertised breakfast cereals for children, Ovaltine for insomniac adults, red meat and potatoes for laborers...
Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...
Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...