Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have less playing like puppets on the part of our press? The American people are not afraid. Let our editors and press absorb some of that courage...
...itty-bitty fella." And Hugh O'Brian is disgusted with Audie Murphy. When Hugh offered to bet $500 that he could beat anybody in Hollywood to the draw, War Hero Murphy upped the ante to $2,500 and demanded live ammunition for the test. Hugh did not press the matter. "Most of these fellows are gigantic babies," says a TV director. "They pout, they sulk, they demand attention...
...streets at 10 p.m. with accounts of Argus that slipped on a few details (e.g., the project's rockets used only solid fuel, not liquid and solid as reported). Uninformed public-information officers on duty at the Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that at 12:35 a-m Snyder belatedly issued a four-paragraph bare-bones story, which erroneously stated...
...tumultuous press conference 13 hours after the Times broke the story, Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles and his top scientific aides gingerly gave out less information than was in the Times's original stories. Badgered by the press, Quarles took the surprising stand that full material on the now public story would have to be released only "through normal scientific channels" (e.g., learned journals like the Physical Review, circ. 10,530). Snapped Quarles about the clean-handed beat of Baldwin and Sullivan: "I would say it was not playing the game with the Defense Department...
...Frondizi) on scheduled newscasts, but as legitimate news. CBS President Frank Stanton, longtime foe of Section 315, pointed out that giving equal time on newscasts would make a farce of radio and television coverage of political news, thereby dealing a serious blow to the principle of freedom of the press. Said Stanton: "[The Daly decision] attempts to substitute a ridiculous mathematical formula for the responsibility of news editors in handling the news of political campaigns...