Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in the growing cordiality between Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and Nehru, Indians became Indians once more, even in Pakistan. The request came straight from Ayub. Bombay's Free Press Journal responded gratefully: "This change of attitude of the Pakistani press is welcome in India that WAS Bharat...
...Legislative Oversight in Washington, Max Hess, owner of a department store in Allentown, Pa., said that at least four leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...
...feature." Said Delaplane, who also wrote a complimentary piece after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess nor the store in his column until Nov. 3, when he broke the story of Hess's having paid $10,000 to get a contestant on a TV quiz show for publicity purposes...
Patiently, but with mounting irritation, Hearst executives denied the rumor every time it popped up, finally exploded last week when the American Newspaper Guild, recirculating the rumor, all but buried the Journal-American. In an article in the Guild Reporter, the Guild's International Executive Board asked U.S. Department of Justice trustbusters to investigate "with zeal a reported arrangement between Hearst and Scripps-Howard news, paper chains to carve up their markets." Continued the Guildsmen: "Now more than 600,000 subscribers of the Hearst Journal-American . . . may soon be deprived of their favorite newspaper, despite denials. The Hearst Journal...
Moving swiftly, Journal-American Publisher Joseph Kingsbury Smith had a $3,100,000 libel suit filed against the Guild. "Deliberate malice or shocking irresponsibility," said Smith of the article. "It is idiotic to think that the management of the Journal-American would be planning to suspend publication...