Word: medias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your coverage of campus disturbances has been most meticulous. However, you, in common with other magazines and other media, persist in describing campuses as intellectual communities. Do you truly believe that a concourse of post-adolescents constitutes an intellectual community? Granted, we must listen to the cacophonous yelping from the occupied college library, but we must listen because the unruly young are the voice of the times, not because they are the voice of the intellectuals. In this country, we have hazy notions about what makes an intellectual: currently the term seems to mean someone who read quite...
...difference. Paul Haney, for six years the cool and detached "voice" of Gemini and Apollo, was gone. His replacement on the air was Jack Riley, another laconic, low-key newsman, who sees his job not so much "as an announcer but as a supplier of information to the news media...
Then as now, these rebellious students were pictured as the new generation, disgusted with the complacency of their parents, fighting courageously for a better world. And what were then the mass media often depicted them as idealists, as young people concerned with the real issues of society...
...last week, he skips them if they interfere with his duties as "one of the ordinary soldiers" among Columbia's warriors. He admits to some concern that "I occasionally get criticized for exploiting the movement and for allowing myself to spend time being co-opted by the mass media." What if the system makes him rich? His usual grin, a shrug of the shoulders, pause: "Eh . . . there it is." He is confident that wealth will not blunt his outrage. "I'm not convinced yet that I'm even a writer," he says. "But if I am, hopefully...
...fault, fellows. We've let our King of the Four Letter Words out into the open, and now the news media and everybody's sister have pounced on it and stripped it of its power. The Movement, as a matter of fact, is the main culprit. It crippled the word by allowing it to become a public symbol of rebellion. I'd bet that if Lyndon Johnson had another year in office, he would destroy "fuck" on national television, just as he destroyed "We Shall Overcome" and "the Ballot or the Bullet...