Word: newsroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before I knew the man, I imagined Hodding Carter alone, hunched over a recalcitrant typewriter in a musty, night-time newsroom, surrounded by Ku Klux Klansmen. In my reverie, he brushed aside like flies the bullets that flew through the paneless windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
...wire service Teletype machine, so familiar a fixture in the newsroom, may soon invade the American home. Bulletins, weather reports, stock quotations, feature stories-all the 24-hours-a-day stream of news is being made available for community antenna television systems by Telemation, Inc., a small Salt Lake City electronics firm...
There is never so much color and laughter in the building as on opening nights. The editors, who are loquacious enough when the newsroom is their own, seem wan, unshaven, even vaguely underdressed, as if they had forgotten to scrub for their own party...
...days, when bitter pans were more the mode, the cast waited anxiously in the outer hall as the reviewer typed out his vitriol behind closed doors, handed his copy to the night editor, and left through the window. Now the cast simply moves its party into the newsroom at about 3 a.m., and many drop into the downstairs office to ask the reviewer how he enjoyed the show or chat about other matters...
...staffer with the same question-"What are you doing?" Everybody knew who they were: efficiency experts from Chicago's Alexander Proudfoot Co. Last week everybody knew the result of their visit: it was all too easily measured by the empty space where desks had been moved from the newsroom...