Word: printed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return to the useful pre-Nixon term to characterize the proper relationship of press and Government: independent?This definition assumes that the press will not print handouts without questioning them and is free to investigate wherever it suspects wrongdoing. And it more correctly describes the actual day-to-day relationship with Government, much of which is the gathering of information and the reportorial pursuit of understanding. Private briefings by policymakers become the insider's wisdom for many Washington columnists. Many officials and politicians speak to the press in private candor, trusting reporters to honor confidences and in return winning...
When the tabloid-size Trib hit New York City last January, it had a print order of 200,000 copies, an innovative magazine-style format, a highly automated production system, a blue-chip board of politically conservative backers and a priceless reservoir of good wishes from a city that had not seen a major new daily in seven years. As the paper's bus ads trumpeted, THE TRIB: IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED SOONER...
...workers who help print and bind these voluminous publications have just ratified--by a very close vote--a new contract...
...attractions. "I'm my own boss," beams Reeves. Says Breslin: "It's the exquisite pleasure of being able to sleep until noon." It is also the exquisite torture of having to spend more time selling stories than writing them, of waiting months until the magazines print-or pay for-them and of passing long hours with only a typewriter for company. Says Marilyn Bethany, who quit freelancing last year to edit a home-decorating quarterly: "The worst part is the loneliness...
...Dear Ernest: Please lay off me in print. If I choose to write de profitndis sometimes it doesn't mean I want friends praying aloud over my corpse. No doubt you meant it kindly but it cost me a night's sleep. And when you incorporate it (the story) in a book would you mind cutting my name? It's a fine story- one of your best- even though the 'Poor Scott Fitzgerald etc.' rather spoiled...