Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest group of newspapers all over the country took their stories of the hearing from the Associated Press releases of January 15 and 16. The former release dealt solely with McCarthy's investigation of Furry and Kamin; the latter release covered the testimonies of the ten witnesses from the General Electric Lynn and Everett plants, with sizeable references to the Cambridge savants by way of background. Approximately 30 percent of the newspapers which used the Associated Press stories used only the second release, completely omitting the first...
...portions and the words of the witnesses, and left most of McCarthy's speeches. This last generalization does not hold true for the South, and much of Oregon and surrounding regions. Here even large newspapers often avoided McCarthy's words and sometimes devoted their space to what Furry and Kamin had to say, as did the Baltimore Evening Sun, for example...
...much the same way in the newspapers which used it as was the AP. But this time it was the midwestern papers, particularly those in Ohio and Indiana, which tended to go short on the story. As big a paper as the Pittsburg "Press" built the whole story around Kamin and left out Furry completely. Other papers did the reverse...
...seemed, moreover, that a small but significant number of journals using the United Press were trying to angle their coverage away from the University. At least 25 percent of these papers, including the Detroit "News," overlooked the Furry-Kamin hearing except as an after thought in the story of the GE hearing...
Even fewer newspapers ran the Inter national News Service story than either AP or UP versions, although, geographically speaking, the INS story appeared is as many parts of the country as any other story. When it appeared, it usually was played medium and omitted Kamin's avowed abandonment of the Communist credo...