Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on George Wallace's physical characteristics is disgusting [Sept. 13]. The reference to his "pouty lips, upswept pompadour and downswept jowls" only reveals the deep poverty of the quality of press reporting in our country...
...named Washington Post Editor James Russell Wiggins, 64, thus rewarding a loyal supporter and astounding even those Lyndon watchers inured to his most bizarre moves. A widely known journalist, Wiggins has no legal or diplomatic experience. When he was tapped, he was preparing to retire from the Post (see PRESS) to his 80-acre Maine farm and a weekly newspaper. Wiggins came to Washington in 1933 as correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, rose to editor before becoming assistant to the publisher of the New York Times. In 1947 he joined the Post, was named editor...
Both Jones and a spokesman for Brewster told the Associated Press yesterday that the article had indeed been scrapped at Brewster's request. The new associate editor of the Alumni Magazine also confirmed the story...
...Administration had failed at home as well as abroad. The credibility gap shows that Johnson has not persuaded the public he was doing the right thing. To some extent, this is a tribute to the press, but it is also a comment on the men and institutions which are running the war. For better or worse, they have been bad propagandists. The extent to which any administration can deceive the public without control of the media is fortunately limited, but the Johnson Administration has repeatedly misused its still formidable weapons of persuasion. The blunders have been sometimes comic, sometimes pitiable...
WHAT first attracted many of us to the Beatles, as public personalities rather than as musicians, was their public manner. "How did you find America?" one reporter asked them. "Turn left at Greenland," John said. "We were funny at press conferences because it was all a joke...you can't put over how you really are. Newspapers always get things wrong." Newspapers always get things wrong; a truth we all learned from Rosenthal's hilarious reporting from Columbia. So why not put them on. "What do you think of Beethoven?" "I love him," said Ringo. "Especially his poems." Fuck them...