Word: pressmen
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Wade C. Thompson, instructor in English, stood before movie cameramen, national pressmen, and a crowd of 700 rambunctious students to support his thesis that "the anti-intellectual game is choked with cliches, sentimental mush, and too much sanctity...
...well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...
What galled pressmen most, beyond their inability to go after the news in a vital part of the world, was the inference, however unintentional, to be drawn from Dulles' ban: a seeming fear that American reporters who went to China could be led astray. The New York Times, four of whose staffers were among the 18 U.S. newsmen invited by the Chinese last August, complained that the Government appeared to believe that the correspondents "would write what the Chinese Reds wanted, and would help the Communists...
...July 16 story on the handling by the press of the Weinberger kidnaping is very distressing. This latest episode harks back to others, which would lead one to believe that some newsmen would sell their mothers into prostitution for a good story. Isn't the time ripe for pressmen to organize an ethical standards committee with power to censure such practices...
...murmured soft endearments, And she talked of Dostoevsky . . . As they landed at the airport Braves in blue restrained the tribesfolk Held at bay the howling pressmen . . . Some there were who liked her front view...