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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pocketbook Optimism. Some newsmen -who as a group are not famed for sunny dispositions-admit frankly that their sudden preoccupation with cheer radiates from the pocketbook. "We don't want to scare our advertisers to death," says Editor Joseph E. Lambright of the Savannah morning News, which last month reported that downtown sales were off 10%, next day ran an advertiser-pressured "clarification" explaining that the slump was caused by the suburban growth. Last week the Nashville Tennessean was pointedly warned by advertisers that its alert coverage of the recession was "bad for business." Newspaper front offices have reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Silver-Lining the Slump | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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