Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the Castro visit, the New York Times, one of his warmest U.S. press friends all through the revolution, abruptly shifted its news line with a 1,400-word story on growing Communist influence in the Castro regime. In pursuit of "revolutionary justice," noted the Times, "it has become customary to arrest members of the Batista armed forces, publish their pictures in the newspapers, including Hoy, the Communist organ-asking if anyone has an accusation against these...
Drastic steps may be necessary to restore economic health. Neither a subsidy nor a public utility, the U.S. daily press is free private enterprise, and owes its existence to the profit margin. "The question is," writes Hartford Courant Editor Herbert Brucker in the Saturday Review, "will the cost squeeze continue its ravages until even those newspapers that enjoy a monopoly can no longer survive?" At last week's A.N.P.A. convention, no one had the answer. And the number of newspapers kept going down: in the last eleven months competitive papers had sold out to leave Tampa, Grand Rapids...
Since U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took ill and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stepped forward toward the leadership of the free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev...
What the British press missed in its effort to push Macmillan's leadership at Ike's expense: in recent months, President Eisenhower has been looking better, working harder and more effectively than at any time since his 1955 heart attack. And that fact was plain to anyone with open eyes, ears and mind...
Fritz Sänger, 57, was absolutely right: after ten years, he was out as chief editor of D.P.-A.-and by last week the West German press bristled with charges that his firing was for reasons that were political, not professional...