Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having Taken an Oath." He was led out. On a lower floor a small army of newsmen, photographers and radiomen waited to hear the grand jury's decision. Hours later, the jurors emerged, filed into elevators which took them down to the courtroom of Judge John Clancy. Reporters were let in to hear the report...
Lone Wolf Pearson rarely attends press conferences. "I'm criticized so much for running off-the-record stuff," he explains mildly, "that I'd rather not even hear it." But he makes it a practice to pump other newsmen and print what they heard. Last week he broadcast a partly accurate, partly distorted version of Secretary Marshall's views on China, which had been given in confidence to reporters in a Statler hotel room. (A Pearson legman had bragged in advance that he would find out what Marshall said.) To some extent Pearson is thus endangering...
...Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...
After Allen went off to war in 1942, some of the steam went out of the Merry-Go-Round, but it never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that...
...Many newsmen agree with him. "For the moment," said one bureau chief last week, 'Tearson is the one investigatory journalist in Washington, and we could use more like him. The rest are all pundits and deadpan reporters. If he laid off those predictions, he'd be a better journalist-and, I suppose, a poorer-paid one." There is no doubt that Pearson has had a healthy effect on Washington. When George C. Marshall was chief of staff, a general, worried over Army leaks to Pearson, went to the chief and urged that Pearson be bottled up by strict...