Word: heralds
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...news report," said a CBS spokesman, "would be inconsistent with basic principles of freedom of information." The show went on, and the British press, aware of Murrow's gag attempt, delightedly gave his role as narrator full billing. "Murrow's documentary," said the London Daily Herald, "blazed fiercely with his incomparable and indispensable indignation." Wrote Neville Randall in the London Daily Sketch: "I can only say that if Murrow builds up America as skillfully as he tore it to pieces last night, the propaganda war is as good...
PORTLAND (Me.) PRESS-HERALD: We stoutly defend the right of any church to teach its doctrine. But we cannot underwrite that doctrine...
False Conception. Other critics have questioned the merits of televised press conferences. "By accommodating television," wrote Robert J. Donovan, Washington bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, "Mr. Kennedy has robbed the presidential press conference of much of its best flavor. The intimacy between the President and the reporter has been diluted by distance. The President may find in the long run that television may not be such a good idea after all. Accessibility of the President is fine, but the presidency must not become commonplace." Televising the conference, said New York Post Capital Correspondent William V. Shannon...
...publisher of the Washington Post, then owned by Eugene Meyer, Graham's father-in-law. Within six months Graham was publisher; within two years he and his wife owned the voting stock of the Post (a gift from Eugene Meyer), and in 1954 he bought out the Times-Herald, the Post's morning rival. By 1956 he had acquired two television stations and had doubled the Post's circulation...
...week, but his weight was felt even before the ink on his earnest check had dried. In as new editor went Managing Editor Osborn Elliott. 36. a 1944 Harvard graduate and former TIME writer, to replace John Denson, who resigned last month to become editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Aging Board Chairman Muir was politely shifted to a resounding but inactive new post as chairman of the executive committee of the board. Malcolm Muir Jr., 45. once heir apparent to his father's desk, was invited to move to Washington in an as yet unidentified capacity...