Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judges in this year's contest were Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Hamilten Basses, novelist and critic, and David McCord '21, poet and former editor of the Alumni Bulletin...
...Newspaper If a newspaper stacks up all the facts in a news story, is it fulfilling its responsibility to its readers? Many an editor who likes to call such treatment "objective reporting" thinks it is. The Christian Science Monitor's able Editor Erwin D. Canham thinks it isn't, and last week wound up a six-part, Page One series of articles that told his readers...
...concept of objective reporting, said he, is basically wrong; the facts need careful interpretation if they are to explain to readers the significance of happenings in the modern world. "Spike" Canham, who has steered the Monitor toward more realistic news coverage by just such stressing of interpretive reporting, explained his philosophy under the headline: HOW TO USE YOUR NEWSPAPER. It was also an important lecture to newsmen on how to edit...
...certain that "the balancing fact" is tacked on to "the misleading assertion," the Monitor prints far more stories from its 81 correspondents and its 2,000-odd special contributors than it does from its three wire services - A.P., U.P. and Reuters. "We think this [balancing fact] is more important than hasty headlines. So we do not hesitate to hold up a misleading story until we can link with it the necessary fact. Our own correspondents are instructed to do this before they file the story in the first place ... "Rightly carried out, this [interpretive] function need entail no more editorializing...
...city fathers also received a communication from Mrs. Paul Spencer of Richmond Virginia, landing their "patriotic" resolution to raise the Monitor and moor it in the Charles. "I hope you are successful in raising the grand old vessel," she wrote...