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...experiment," Pundit Walter Lippmann stayed away from the convention for the first time in as long as he can remember, relying on a borrowed TV set for his coverage. But Lippmann, like many another TV-viewer, also leaned heavily on the work of hundreds of newspaper reporters. Throughout the convention, soaring newspaper sales indicated that TV probably whets the appetite for newspaper news, rather than dulls it. Said Editor Louis Seltzer, putting his finger on the big flaw in TV coverage alone: "The people at the convention can't tell what's happening without expert advice, and neither...
...With amused interest I read in your May 26 Personality sketch of Walter Lippmann that he was one of the "bright young men called to Washington" during the Wilson Administration. Reflecting on the change of times, it would be almost impossible today to "call" young brain power into governmental service. To be sure, there are those who may "apply" for a job, fill out wordy dossiers on themselves, wait months for Civil Service classification (a process which insures mediocrity), and then undergo the humiliating "402, FBI-security" snoop...
...young Walter Lippmanns want to donate their services to the Government, they should be prepared to give up six to eight months of their time for such ponderous bureaucratic processing. Unfortunately, with any sort of "socialist and argumentative" background like Mr. Lippmann's, a candidate need not even apply, much less be called...
...press conference," wrote Columnist Walter Lippmann this week, "has become an institution . . . for overcoming that growing threat to honest journalism, the ghost-written speech and the public-relations facade. . . In its fullest modern development [it] is an ordeal which searches a man's personality far more deeply than it does his principles and his policies." The words were especially true in the case of Ike Eisenhower, and it was Ike's character that won the week with newsmen. But Ike's press conferences also produced answers on policies & principles. Samples...
...Columnist Walter Lippmann: "This is the Washingtonian model of the presidency. It is the style of the Washington who managed for so long and in a most critical period of our history to keep both Hamilton and Jefferson in his cabinet...