Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. John Gunther, 46, widely traveled, quick-looking journalist (Inside Europe, Inside Asia, Inside Latin America, Inside U.S.A.); and Jane Perry Vandercook, 31, blonde ex-wife of bearded, widely traveled Author John W. Vandercook; each for the second time; in Chicago...
...intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers will understand. A journalist who gives his reader simple but necessary background material departs from a practice which a great contemporary philosopher* has called "the tiresome pretense that writer and reader know more...
What's the difference between impartiality and fairness? The responsible journalist is "partial" to that interpretation of the facts which seems to him to fit things as they are. He is fair in not twisting the facts to support his view, in not suppressing the facts that support a different view...
They all believe that competition is good for the soul. Competition selects that neurotic hybrid known as "a Crimeed" from the saner strains of College men, and the grim reaper of competitive toil determines his future career as a college journalist...
...Roosevelt), onetime (1933-41) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed Southern Methodism and the common...