Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wright was not always so politically engaged. He joined the News as a copy boy after graduating from high school in 1952. During stints as a photographer and picture editor, he dashed off cartoons for the paper's editors, who frequently posted them on newsroom bulletin boards. In 1963 he was persuaded to seek a wider audience by drawing full time. "I had no idea what an editorial cartoonist was or what he was supposed to do," says Wright, "except that he was supposed to have an opinion." Having few firm views on current affairs, he was forced...
...upheld, will doom investigative reporting on the air. "There is no documentary," network lawyers argue, "dealing with and exposing any social problem to which the reasoning of the [FCC] staff opinion could not apply." Lawyer Floyd Abrams, who is representing NBC, says that the FCC "is moving into the newsroom more than ever before." Charges Executive Producer Reuven Frank, NBC news president at the time the documentary was shown: "If this were a rule, it would mean that television news must never examine a problem in American life without first ascertaining that we had piled up enough points...
Since August, the paper's writing and editing have been carried out on a modified version of the A.P.-Hendrix CRT. Gone from the newsroom is the clattering of typewriters. The loudest sounds now are the occasional howls from reporters still baffled by their futuristic machines. A CRT has 47 more keys than the standard typewriter, such as ETX (end of text). Thus the possibilities for fumble-fingered writing errors have multiplied. One of those keys, the "kill" button, even whisks the story off the screen and erases it from computer memory. (The News has nine new computers, capable...
Though some reporters and desk-men complain about adjustment problems, News executives are certain that their investment will pay off in increased efficiency and better distribution. Once stories are edited in the newsroom, computers transmit them to the printing plant, set type photographically at 300 lines a minute and partially control the operation of six new three-story-high presses. The changes mean that late-breaking stories can get into the paper 15 minutes before press time, as compared with the hour required previously...
...have now of how I felt then is my reaction when news bulletins come over television. To this day I freeze with panic whenever a program is cut off in the middle and a solemn-voiced announcer says, "We interrupt this program to bring you this bulletin from our newsroom in New York...