Word: media
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science and industry he found hundreds of new words to define. There was guided missile (proyectil dirigido), G-man (agente secreto federal), high-fidelity (alta fidelidad), and 3-D (pelicula cinematográfica tridimensional). He had to translate babbittry (concepto de la moral y las costumbres de la clase media), flying saucer (platillo volador o volante), Hoosier (natural o habitante del estado de Indiana), and water wagon (sin tomar bebidas alcohólicas). Even some old words caused trouble. In no bilingual dictionary, for instance, could Williams find a definition of solitary confinement; he came across it by accident...
...means a complete understanding. For the White House news secretary continues to sit as editor of what may be seen and heard later. He edits the sound tape and he edits the film. The news secretary works for the President, not for the information media, and it would be too much to expect for him to release those segments of presidential speech in which the Chief Executive does not perform at his best...
...argued by some that under this system, free journalists are lending themselves to the uses of calculated official propaganda, but that would be stretching journalistic Calvinism a bit too far. For the journalists, of all media, will watch what portions of film are released, and they will feel perfectly free to make news of the fact that other portions are held back when that seems a newsworthy point to make. On the whole, the experiment went well; there seems no real reason it cannot continue to. go well, and be of benefit, on balance, to both the President...
...skinned knee becomes a statistic, American look at things differently. Hundreds of posters warn Junior about leaving his roller skates on the stairs, and the man who keeps oily rags in his cellar is little better than a criminal. Under the aegis of the National safety Council, the mass media have combined to produce a state of safety pyschosis...
...miss it does White Christmas is a completely unsatisfactory movie. It is bad on all levels. One can not laugh at it, and only rarely can one laugh with it. It leads to no weighty reflections about mass media and the twelve-year old mind (a twelve-year old near me was sleeping soundly, oblivious to the effort being made to entrance...