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...find the vein again. Who found it? Moore, of course. And he also found the wheelbarrow, the dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...
...classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems] to be afraid of newspapermen; they don't trust them and they don't realize the position of the newspaper in national life...
Even though many big news stories are telecast, publishers no longer fear TV as a threat to daily newspaper circulation. They have decided that TV, if it does anything for them, whets rather than dulls readers' appetites for printed news. But for working newspapermen, TV is often an obstruction to good reporting. Last week, writing in the International Press Institute's monthly Report, the New York Times's able United Nations correspondent. A. M. Rosenthal. told why. The trouble, wrote Rosenthal, is that TV "is not interested primarily in news but in entertainment," and it requires...
...other sources, dig around a little, maybe develop a story. But look at that [TV] program: no embarrassing questions; a chance to tell the world why he is heaven's gift to diplomacy; a big audience; painless. He's smart. What does he want to talk to newspapermen...
...pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis Burton, who doubled as the track's publicity man. Burton was promptly dropped by the JA, and Manhattan newspapermen gossiped that other sportswriters were also on track payrolls...