Word: newsweek
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...more than a decade now, major U.S. news media (including The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, and various television networks) have featured articles which questioned the innate intellectual abilities of Blacks and Hispanics on the basis of their performance on standardized aptitude tests. White "test authorities" have used performance on these tests as a tool for discrimination against minorities of color, especially in respect to college admissions. Under the guise of protecting America's vital intelligence standards, certain influential individuals and special interest groups have sought to use test scores as a means of limiting...
Representatives of ABC, NBC, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, submitted affidavits supporting CBS. Confidentiality for in-house investigations is vital for editors at the Journal, noted Dow Jones News Vice President Edward Cony. "Anything that interferes with their ability to confer with one another fully and candidly diminishes their ability to exercise properly their responsibilities as editors...
...allies: the London Sunday Times, whose parent News Corporation bought (for an estimated $400,000) publication rights to the diaries within much of the British Commonwealth; eminent historians including Hugh Trevor-Roper, a Hitler scholar and Times director, who said he was "satisfied that the documents are authentic"; and Newsweek, which voiced some skepticism but took the find seriously enough to report it in a 13-page cover story...
Although it gave the diaries cover treatment, Newsweek had backed away from purchasing North American rights to them. TIME inspected the diaries and turned them down, primarily because there was insufficient time to conduct its own investigation into their authenticity. A subheadline on Newsweek's cover asked ARE THEY GENUINE? and the magazine devoted several paragraphs of its story to quoting disbelievers. In advertising for the story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were...
Aggravating the controversy was Stern's angry charge that Newsweek, after withdrawing a bid to publish the diaries, had unethically broken an agreement to keep secret the material that had been shown to Parker and a paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will...