Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...male schools, called "7005" (to tag them as a separate series), met different receptions. One opened in a rundown part of Brooklyn without a stir. But the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, brought violent protests from the district school board and the local P.T.A. One group grumbled that the old building should be torn down to make a playground for an adjoining new school. Other Villagers made plain their dislike of "a special school for a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Muttered a beat-pounding cop: "They ought to bring up a couple of drill instructors from Parris Island...
...Cincinnati, when local newspapers ignored a smear campaign against a Negro running for re-election to the city council, radio station WSAI raised its voice to chastise both the whisperers and the silent press. The one-shot unscheduled broadcast did not put Candidate Theodore Berry back into office, reported a WSAI spokesman, but it brought more than 1,000 letters and phone calls, mostly approving, and goaded the newspapers into a defense of their silence...
...newscast since last September, WTVJ happily watched the show's rating more than double. The editorials covered such subjects as obscene literature, pay TV, security at Cape Canaveral. WTVJ and many of its fellow editorializers try to follow these rules: beat the press to the draw, stick to local issues, curb negative blasting in favor of constructive suggestions...
Since the severity of the recession varied widely from region to region, it was not a big local story for all newspapers. But in many of the cities where unemployment was heaviest, editors ranged uneasily from boosterism to ostrichism. In Los Angeles, where layoffs have idled nearly 6% of the work force, Hearst's Herald & Express whooped: ROSY L.A. ECONOMY SEEN. In Detroit, some of the big auto plant shutdowns have landed in the back pages. In New England, most publishers admit privately that they are worried about business conditions, but, says one news executive, "you'll never...
...clouds for the silver lining, many editors are solicitously pumping up buoyant bulletins on building permits, bank deposits, airline travel, and other statistics that are normally buried on the business page. Scripps-Howard's Memphis Press-Scimitar last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off. In Atlanta, the Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed Aircraft workers last fall until it could report that the factory had found other jobs for some...