Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ "We ourselves manufacture news. We make a practice of 'rounding up' opinion on events, occasionally manufacture news about our own crusades by playing them far out of proportion to the news value."
Some of Estabrook's shudder makers:
¶ "We sometimes pretend, through use of the dateline, that stories actually composed in the office were written elsewhere."
¶ "Under our doctrine of 'objectivity.' what a man says is news whether or not it happens to be true. When Senator McCarthy made wild charges, we blew them up-even after we knew them to be untrue."
¶ "We rigidly follow a formula of rewriting public speeches so as to emphasize what the reporter, sometimes with no knowledge of his own about the subject, thinks is the most important or sensational phrase."