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Now we are presented with a paperback called The Press, by A.J. Liebling, and I am still depressed by books about newspapers. This latest entry into the field isn't even a book; it is merely a collection of Liebling's "Wayward Press" articles from the New Yorker. There is...
Of course, the points Liebling raises are valid. He notes the dangers inherent in the growing consolidation of newspapers--but everybody already knows them. He points out that the Associated Press and United Press International wires are often inadequate and misinformed--but everybody knows that. He observes that the foreign...
A Hearst executive once told A. J. Liebling that "the public is interested in just three things: Blood, money, and...sexual intercourse." Hearstlings Lait and Mortimer have taken that creed to heart. They have written long and loud about what's wrong with America, always with at least one eye...
In the prose regions of the Lampoon, it is again a recent graduate who has done the most creditable job. John P. C. Train '50, in a semi-Liebling-like analysis of Mexican newspapers, displays again the effortlessness and sophistication which make most of his stuff easy and delightful to...
He doubts the complete freedom of the U.S. press, points out that it takes $10 million to start a newspaper in a big city and $1 million in a middle-sized city. Reporter Liebling's solutions (which all call for big money, too): 1) newspapers backed by labor unions...