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NEWSWATCH/Thomas Griffith...
...chewing on the ball of his fist as if it were an apple core. He was watching two young actresses rehearse a scene that was not going well. In Italy, the sound track of a film is dubbed in later, so Fellini can direct like a latter-day D.W. Griffith, instructing as the camera rolls: "Move toward me, Olimpia. Pause. Take a deep breath. Look down at your hands. Bravar Actress Olimpia Carlisi is not acting to the camera, but to her director, her Svengali...
...with "Newswatch," which is scheduled to appear once every two or three weeks, Griffith will be something of a one-man monitoring board. He plans to continue what he did in How True: "Talk about what is right and wrong about the press." His intention is not to turn out a "trade column" but to write for the concerned layman and to focus on issues that the public finds "pertinent and fascinating"-such as whether the press should print everything it knows. "Some journalists feel that because of the First Amendment they couldn't possibly be accountable to anyone...
...familiar figure around Time Inc. since 1943, Griffith used to be a writer, senior editor and assistant managing editor at TIME. In 1959, he wrote The Waist-High Culture, an analysis of such ills of American society as materialism and the decline of excellence. Later he became senior staff editor for all Time Inc. publications and editor of LIFE. Now, in addition to writing "Newswatch" and TIME Essays, he contributes frequently to FORTUNE and the Atlantic Monthly...
...Some columns of 'Newswatch,' I expect, will be angry at particular press performances," says Griffith. "Other pieces will examine why the press had to do what it did." Whatever the approach, Griffith hopes that the result for his readers will be an enlivened interest in the ways of the newsgathering world. As Martin Arnold, who was then covering the press for the New York Times, noted in his review of How True, Griffith "succeeds admirably in making the reader think about journalism...