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Regarding your last issue of TIME, you ran an article about the Merchant Marine calling us suckers and slackers. Also stating that we were expected to boo the message from the President of the United States. I wish to inform you that we are not slackers and suckers and also we respect our Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. We Merchant Mariners, 10,000 strong, are trying to build up the reputation of the backbone of the American victory fleet...
...such unimportant bits added up to a quiet, detailed, richly evocative piece of radio reporting. U.S. radio listeners could cheer Corwin's assumption that they were adult enough to understand common adult speech, could therefore be spared the painful explanations that often accompany radio's attempts to inform...
...companies. Even after cases have been used in the class room they are sometimes further revised and rewritten on the basis of class discussion. If an investigator does not have a talent for the work, inaccuracies in the case material or letters from antagonized business executives will inform him of that fact. Generally, the snoopermen are welcomed with enthusiasm and royally entertained. Some executives are flattered by the request to "give students the benefit of your experience," and in the words of a researcher, "damn near talk your ear off." All recognize their opportunity to "contribute to better business education...
...correspondence with editors was just as lively. The Daily Chronicle wrote him furiously: "Dear Sir, I am directed by the editor to inform you that he will see you damned before he gives you more than ?5 for the article in question." Shaw replied: "Dear Sir, Please inform the editor that I will see him and you and the whole Chronicle staff boiled in hell before I will do it for that money...
...there is a mission which is peculiar to the Press-the mission to inform. Through all the alarms of the future, the true journalist will continue to believe in the paramount importance of the purely informative function of journalism. There is where his conscience will be most especially engaged. And his proudest boast will be that he has fearlessly, eagerly and effectively transmitted significant information from the boisterous newsfronts of the world into the minds of living and literate and free people...