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Says Columbia Journalism Dean Elie Abel: "On the whole, the major media do an incredibly bad job of covering the Third World." To be sure, the West's press does devote considerably more ink and airtime to the likes of Uganda's Idi Amin than to more responsible leaders, and usually pays more attention to scandals and disasters than to complex social and economic stories. Yet those complaints can also be made about the West's coverage of its own affairs. If Western reporting about the developing world is thin, that may be because news follows the realities of world...
...five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England. "I act as a sponge," she once said of her job. "I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks...
...Charles Whittingham: "The single most important lesson we learned is that readers have to pay for the magazine. They used to get a free ride." Indeed, when LIFE suspended publication, some subscribers were paying as little as 14¢ a copy, a sum well below the cost of paper and ink. The new LIFE is priced at $1.50 a copy, whether purchased at a newsstand or through the mail, and Whittingham expects that circulation revenue alone will now "do a pretty good job" of covering the magazine's operating expenses. Furthermore, the burden of soaring second-class postal rates will...
...focus of the fracas is a once mighty, now waning band of newsprint-hatted yeomen, the pressmen. Not to be confused with printers, who set the type?and whose ranks have been thinned by automation in recent years ?pressmen are the strong-limbed fellows who start, stop, replate, ink, wipe and otherwise keep the presses rolling. Automation has not much altered their jobs. The presses roll twice as fast as they did in 1923, when a strike set the manning levels and work rules that pretty much prevail today, but the union has argued that faster presses require more...
...break up a wrestling match between Algerian and Moroccan delegates over a map of Africa that classified the Western Sahara as a nonindependent country. The Algerians, who support Polisario guerrillas fighting for the area's independence, were penciling in "independent" when the Moroccans chanced along and tried to ink in boundary lines indicating that Western Sahara had been partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania. A brief, fierce struggle ensued...