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...that Lindstrom says about the futility of the newspapers' race with radio and television is quite true: the networks have seen the wisdom of imitating the airwaves. But radio and television, I think, are not the cause of the newspapers' troubles--the competition between the two media is largely illusory. Those who want to know what is going on in the world look to television only for events like national conventions, coronations and inaugurations; on other occasions, except for the specials, television makes no pretension of being an adequate news medium, and interested people must and do look elsewhere...
...what both, Lippmann and Cater are concerned with is the relations of the newspaper to the democratic process, and this indeed is the problem of the daily newspaper today, a problem to which Lindstrom pays too little attention...
...newspapers ("with two or three brilliant exceptions"), it is true, do not give a reader enough to make him an informed citizen; but the converse, with which Lindstrom leads off his book, cannot be accepted: "A man no longer needs to read a daily newspaper in order to be well-informed...
...Lindstrom says, any story will wait for the right telling, but when he implies that the right telling can be found in the newsmagazines, I must disagree violently. On the contrary, the watered-down news of the newsmagazines is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with journalism. The newsmagazines have abandoned the restrictive pyramid style and write their stories entertainingly, but this does not mean that they tell the news comprehensively or well...
...spare money) on their hands than ever before; they simply don't choose to use the time and the money to become informed about public affairs. Neither Time nor the New York Times' News of the Week in Review is a substitute for the daily reading of one of Lindstrom's "two or three brilliant exceptions." While I do not agree completely with Lindstrom's bland assertion that "puzzling facts can be explained only by more facts," it is obvious that more facts are preferable to fewer facts...