Word: journalistic
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Burnett did not originate this conceit. In his classic 1922 study Public Opinion, journalist Walter Lippmann maintained that pictures are "the surest way of conveying an idea. A leader or an interest that can make itself master of current symbols is master of the current situation...
...century's turn, Dow died, Jones sold out, and in came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...
Alan Farnham is a New York City-based financial journalist and author who has a few quirks...
...launched with Morel at the helm. Morel had a short but impressive list of predecessors in the movement to end the killings in the Congo, starting with George Washington Williams, the first African-American member of the Ohio state legislature (as well as a prominent minister, lawyer and journalist). In a letter written to the U.S. Secretary of State, Williams wrote that Leopold's Congo was "guilty of crimes against humanity," a full half-century before the same phrase was used in the Nuremberg trials...
Some of these similarities stem from Wolfe's author-as-journalist style. Human nature today is not much different than it was 10 years ago; the struggle for money, power, sex and status would be a part of anything that describes human society. The books' similarities are too pervasive to be mere coincidence, despite several marked differences...