Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journal's own birth, less than two months after the Battle of Gettysburg, was hastened by the irresponsible fashion in which the daily press covered the Civil War. Under Editor William Conant Church, onetime chief war correspondent for the New York Times, who had served as a captain in the Union Army, the Army and Navy Journal in its first issue lodged a baleful eagle atop Page One, promised that the paper would be devoted without bias to "sound military ideas and to the elevation of the public service." The weekly, which expanded its name to the Army, Navy...
Management Audience. But the Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat...
...Journal today faces the almost insupportable task of judging among the warring services to and for which it speaks. For nearly a century it has kept a cool head while raising its circulation. Editor LeRoy Whitman, 55, onetime aviation reporter and assistant city editor of the Washington Post, says: "It has never been a question of steering the middle course. The question is: 'What's best for the national defense...
When a new city administration, led by State Senator James F. Murray Jr., was elected in Jersey City last May, one of its first aims was to get revenge on the Jersey Journal (circ. 101,162), which had editorially supported an opposition slate hand-picked by Democratic Boss John V. Kenny. Murray's men transferred all city legal advertising to the rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 58,037), refused to give out any information to Journal newsmen (TIME, June 3), even scheduled public meetings so that major stories would break too late for the evening Journal but in time...
Though his men were forced to ferret out news crumbs from such peccable sources as a blind coffee vendor in the City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost...