Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush to Judgment, Lane...
...money. The expense of flying film from Viet Nam, for example, developing it on the West Coast and then leasing a line for $3,000 an hour to transmit the pictures to New York for inclusion in a program, is likely to have an overbearing effect on news judgment. Even if the pictures do not live up to the raves cabled in by the man in the field (who probably had not seen them and was depending on his photographer's word), they may price their way onto the program...
...Rush to Judgment, Lane...
...acidly funny as it keeps promising to be. In the past, Condon cultists have been treated to comic narrative leaps performed with the agility of a Macedonian goat, and to sly surrealistic glimpses into the lives of Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose in the presence of his desperate snob, and an author's distaste for his own hero can taint a reader...
...even more harmful. I think I am right that when we seek to interpret health trends we look separately at the figures on tuberculosis, lung cancer, and measles. We do not lump these together and add ulcers, colds and athlete's foot and then seek to make a gross judgment about how we are doing...