Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of us, now on the sidelines, hold schools of journalism largely responsible for many of the faults cited by Dr. Flesch. The oldtime press association reporter ... at one time or another had worked under a hard-boiled city editor who beat out his brains with a club when he wrote above the head of the man in the street. . . . Now the average reporter is a journalism graduate and apparently puts on the dog to show how much he knows...
...course, were professionally interested in the South African press and in the newspaper men who conduct it. They turned out to be an alert and very enterprising group of journalists, and their newspapers reflect those attributes. I was impressed by the knowingness of their questions about the forthcoming Presidential election in the U.S. and by their knowledge of the U.S.'s role in world affairs...
General MacArthur had a new press-agent last week, and Tokyo correspondents hoped for a new deal on news. Ex-General Frayne Baker, blamed by the reporters for much of the censorship trouble they had encountered in covering the Occupation (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), was transferred. His replacement was Colonel Marion P. Echols, 48, onetime P.R.O. at West Point...
...Scripps had promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up. When they hedged, he quit. Last week, Townes left town. He will become general manager of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) morning Press-Democrat (circ. 10,396), the afternoon Republican (circ. 2,053) and their radio station...
...University of California admitted last week (after too many garbled rumors in the press) that it had created the first man-made meson. U.C. did it with its 4,000-ton cyclotron. The news caused a sizable flurry throughout the world of physics-for mesons are closely connected with the unknown force that holds matter together...