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...current FORTUNE, veteran New York Times Washington Columnist Arthur Krock, 76, undertakes a go at the subject and levels some serious charges. "A news management policy not only exists," he writes, "but, in the form of direct and deliberate action, has been enforced more cynically and boldly than by any previous Administration in a period when...
Several weapons are available to any President-suppression, concealment, distortion, false weighing of facts-and Krock says that Kennedy has employed them all. But it is in the field of indirect management of news that the President has moved "with subtlety and imagination for which there is no historic parallel known to me." A favorite ploy is to claim unpopular decisions are "in line with or compelled by policies adopted by the Eisenhower Administration." In the foreign policy area, another much used gambit is to arbitrarily claim a questionable act is necessary "to prevent a confrontation with Soviet Russia likely...
...added 26 hands to its news staff-many of them from the city's muted press. As soon as the strike began, the National Broadcasting Company programmed The New York Times of the Air, featuring such familiar bylines as Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. Capital Columnist Arthur Krock and Broadway Critic Howard Taubman. At first NBC paid the visitors nothing, on the premise that they were really appearing on behalf of the Times. Now each recruit gets a performer's minimum of $50 per show...
...Horror. Harsh as these appraisals were, they sounded like popguns in comparison to the detonations that greeted his end-of-the-week budget message. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock all but kissed the U.S. goodbye. "Item by item," wrote Krock, "the budget reflects the weird and incessantly disproved economic theory that government can bestow all these material benefits without a grim reckoning at any time in the future. It is the death of a viable economy that is risked by the items which pile on the billions." Predicted the Omaha World-Herald: "If his proposed budget is adopted, America...
...thinking came "on the highest authority." The Baltimore Sun cited Kennedy "friends." The Philadelphia Bulletin listed "those who should know," "those who know the President best," "closest associates," "those in whom he has confidence," and "intimates." But the New York Times's Elder Pun dit Arthur Krock, who has not recently been in Palm Beach, felt free to insist that it was the President him self who had been doing the talking. At any rate, the President's thinking ranged over a variety of subjects, from tax prospects to reflections on Cuba...