Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amplification of your reference to the Jersey Journal in the March 25 Press section: when I notified the staff of the Jersey Journal that I would take disciplinary action against any member who accepted employment as political pressagent, I was not inaugurating a new policy for the paper. I posted my notice and wrote my letter to all known candidates in order to reaffirm a policy which had been in force since Mr. S. I. Newhouse acquired control of the paper in November 1951. Since that time, no staff member of the Jersey Journal has handled campaign publicity with...
...crew, says Psychologist E. Jack Wilcox in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, will have been selected with meticulous care to exclude screamy or jittery types. But conditions on board will be so strange that even the best-ordered psyche is apt to break out with psychoses. There will be no gravitation, of course, so some of the men will be upside down, walking on the ceiling, like flies, with suction cups on their feet or brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle. Subconscious physical habits learned in infancy will not work any more. The space...
Exposés & Affidavits. The Oregonian (circ. 230,850) was braced for the shocked reaction its exposé caused among readers. What it did not expect was a violent counterattack from its rival daily, the Oregon Journal (circ. 181,489). Soundly beaten on the story and unable to lay hands on the tape-recorded evidence, the Journal sent a reporter along with D.A. Langley on a hoked-up raid on an Elkins aide who had some tapes in his possession. The tapes were turned over to the Journal reporter, who allowed the Teamster organizer to copy them, and were then...
...last week of Schrunk and Langley on charges of accepting bribes from racketeers, every conspirator named by the Oregonian was facing criminal action. (Langley, who had filed libel suits for $2,000,000 against the Oregonian and several individuals who supported its story, quietly dropped them.) Still the rival Journal stuck to its guns. On Page One it ran an affidavit from Clifford ("Jimmy") Bennett, operator of an Elkins-backed after-hours drinking dive, in which Bennett denied his previous story that he had paid Schrunk $500 protection money in September 1955-the incident on which the indictment was based...
...Oregonian-Journal battle had a parallel in Seattle, Beck's headquarters, where the Times (circ. 190,789) teamed eagerly with the Oregonian on the story and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 208,224) did its best to ignore the scandal (TIME, March 11). When Beck returned from Europe last month, he at first refused to be interviewed by any newsman except the PI's Douglass Welch-who with P-I Editorial Writer Nard Jones has turned out a Horatio Algerish version of Beck's life struggle. Later, when the Times gleefully quoted Beck's admission...