Word: greatnesse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many newspapers and many newsmen have tried to define greatness, and all their efforts only show a wide disagreement on where greatness lies-or even how to get there. William Rockhill Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star, took an alimentary approach. "God's great gift to man is...
Markedly Unsuccessful. Some such proud creed ripples from dozens of newspaper mastheads, nailed up-but seldom nailed down-by high-minded publishers. Dozens of other mastheads support unvarnished claims to greatness, as if the quality were something that has merely to be claimed to be possessed. The Chicago Tribune, for...
Extramural attempts to define greatness by ranking the U.S. press in order of merit have been markedly unsuccessful. Since 1952, Publicist Edward L. Bernays has solicited U.S. daily-newspaper publishers three times to nominate the country's ten "best" dailies-a superlative that Bernays does not define. All three...
One in Eight. Journalism schools preserve a cautious silence on the subject of journalistic greatness. Last spring, when Dean Edward Barrett of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism let slip the opinion that there were only 18 "good" U.S. dailies, he was immediately asked for their names. Barrett...
A local group of young Republicans has urged the party to "seek in its future leadership those qualities of vision, intellectual force, humaneness and courage that America saw in John F. Kennedy, not in a specious effort to fall hair to his mantle but because our times demand no lesser...