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...Right to Do This." The fresh skirmishing dates roughly from last November, when New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, then still a presidential hopeful, arrived in Los Angeles and called a press conference. As was his policy, said Rockefeller, he would hold two sessions, one for newspapermen and one for the TV cameras. But Los Angeles TV men would have none of that. Vainly protesting Rockefeller's segregation policy, they sat grumpily in on the newspaper conference, and then, when their turn came, walked out en masse, taking their cameras with them...
Nothing for Background. The pencil newsmen tend to regard their TV colleagues as upstarts who know little more about journalism than how to plug a cable into a socket. The newspapermen resent being forced to feed their best questions to the TV competition, and they feel strongly that the camera's presence spoils the essential informality of press conferences. How can a news source say, "Now, if I may explain for your background," when mikes are open and cameras are grinding...
...Rios, any wire-agency story that lied about Castro (meaning put him in a bad light) would, if it appeared in any Cuban paper, be followed by this rider: "This wire story is published voluntarily by this newspaper, making legitimate use of the press freedom existing in Cuba. But newspapermen and graphic workers of this work center express, using that same right, their opinion that the contents of the story are not in conformity with the truth or to the most elemental ethics of journalism." At week's end no Cuban newspaper had dared to publish a story that...
...them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could be kept edible without refrigeration practically forever, because all the microorganisms in them had been done to death by radiation. The Army proudly fed irradiated meals to newspapermen, top brass, and 20 Congressmen. Last week, with some embarrassment, the Army announced that it was shelving a $7,500,000 irradiated-food plant at Stockton, Calif, (on which $1,300,000 had been spent...
...give a dazzling smile and explode with the answers"), and ordered him to bow before the engaging erudition of Charlie Van Doren. Stempel walked off with a consoling $49,500 in winnings. But when he quickly blew the money, Stempel became disillusioned, started leaking stories of the fix to newspapermen...