Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true Western parallel exists for Pravda or Izvestia, or indeed, for the Soviet press as a whole. Each day, it spews 57 million copies of 7,686 papers across the land. Identical in size-18½ in. by 23½ in., four to six pages-all are of such a numbing editorial sameness that E. A. Lazebnik, deputy director of propaganda for the party Central Committee in the Ukraine, was moved in 1956 to complain with singular bluntness: "If one were to conceal the names of newspapers, it would be almost impossible to tell which is which...
...news is a massive daily dose of party propaganda, dished out dully: party directives and pep talks, party speeches, party promotion lists, party comings and goings, party polemic and praise. Since Stalin's death, the propaganda dose has been sweetened somewhat in a calculated effort to liberalize the press-and to keep the reader swallowing the party pill. With full official sanction, newspapers began criticizing each other: "Soviet newspapers," wrote Pravda in a recent and scathing Press Day editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted in a rash of sensational...
...years Anaconda Co. was the press lord of Montana, owning seven dailies* in five of the state's major cities. Last week Anaconda's Board Chairman Clyde Weed announced that the company aimed to sell all seven papers. Behind the decision is the story of how Anaconda bought newspapers to consolidate its hold on Montana, came to discover that they were doing the company more harm than good...
...Editor Herbert G. Klein, 41, last week cleared his desk for a leave of "indefinite" duration. Able, easy-eyed Herb Klein, a World War II Navy officer who rose out of the city room to the top editorial post on the pivotal paper of the 15-paper Copley Press, had received a summons from a friend in Washington: Richard Nixon. Next week Editor Klein will fly to Washington for his new job as special assistant to the Vice President...
Calif. Post-Advocate-also a Copley paper-and Nixon was running his first political race. Two years later Congressman Nixon borrowed Klein as an unpaid publicist in the 1948 campaign, borrowed him again in 1952 (again as publicist), 1956 (assistant press secretary) and 1958 (press secretary). During each Nixon stint Klein earned increasing respect from political reporters as a pressman's press secretary...