Word: innuendo
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...last fifty years have taught something to the American press. It has learned that overtone and innuendo sell a lot of papers, that a sex-angle will keep a run-of-the-mill murder story alive for weeks. The right to sensational journalism is indisputable. Newspapers are a business like any other business, and like any other business they depend on public demand. Freedom of the press pre-supposes variety in journalism, and it's the job of the individual to weed the good from the bad. But when the press distorts this freedom by reporting a war effort with...
...known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided. If you're a good linguist and have the sort of imagination which reads vicious innuendo into the simplest "bon jour" or "mauvais unit," you may get a kick out of this picture; otherwise you might just as well try Harper's for light reading. By far the most interesting feature of the program is the short, "The Birth of Life." This title's a take...
...immediate statements from officials here to correct Axis innuendo...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...
Both Your Houses. For the last four weeks Nazi propaganda directed against the U.S. had appeared in increasing quantities in Argentine newspapers, on the radio, in the mail, through books and cartoons. The propaganda is an artful blending of subtle innuendo in high places and blatant, vicious attack in low places...