Word: griffiths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Journalism is "an exciting way to do good," maintains Thomas Griffith, the man behind our new press feature, "Newswatch." But after 40 years in journalism, including a starting stint as a police reporter with the Seattle Times in his native Washington State, Griffith is quick to qualify that idealism: "I'm much more skeptical," he adds dryly, "than when I started out." In fact, it was his well-developed skepticism that prompted Griffith to write his 1974 book How True (subtitle: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News). Its object: to provide readers with an inside view...
...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...
John Lanigan Griffith...
NEWSWATCH/THOMAS GRIFFITH...
FOURTH PARADOX: Having made what amounts to an art-film spectacle-something few directors since Griffith and Eisenstein have brought off-Kubrick now requires that his backers go out and sell the damned thing. Because of distribution and promotion costs, the film must gross at least $30 million to make a profit. Kubrick has his own ideas about how to proceed: a tasteful ad campaign, a limited-release pattern permitting good word of mouth to build, saturation bookings timed to coincide with the Academy Award nominations that the director and studio believe are inevitable. Warner salesmen wish they had something...