Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monitor & Death...
Your reference (TIME, April 23) to the front-page news of Roosevelt's death in the Christian Science Monitor is guilty of half-truths. Your staff must know that the Monitor went to press Thursday before the flash came. By the time this paper went to press on Friday, every man, woman and child in the country knew the shocking news. Hence the "newsworthy" pointing of the Monitor's Friday afternoon headlines toward the important, morale-stiffening news of that day: the stabilizing effect of Truman's first moves as the reins of government passed...
...mention of death in the Monitor's pages, I find no editorial taboo, as witness the moving tribute to one of your profession, Ernie Pyle, in the editorial columns of a recent issue...
...Although the excellent Monitor generally prefers the euphemism "passed on" to "died,' and is averse to mentioning death, TIME erred in saying that the Monitor has a taboo against...
...sister, the Washington Times-Herald, carried their feuding beyond the grave. In place of an editorial, they ran a column of "Famous Sayings of Franklin D. Roosevelt," slyly picking the ones they had frequently berated, including the "again and again and again" anti-war pledge.) The Christian Science Monitor, to which death is a taboo subject, ran an eight-column banner: "TRUMAN PLEDGES U.S. TO ROOSEVELT POLICY." Only in the second paragraph was there a fleeting reference to "the sudden, unwarned passing of Mr. Roosevelt." Cerebral hemorrhage was not mentioned, but the Monitor spoke guardedly of "what had happened...