Word: printed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is quite a different picture. The obsequious journalists who so readily assumed that Nye's request was legitimate seem to have little in common with the hard-nosed reporter who only as a last resort stubbornly strikes up a contractual agreement not to print all he knows about a story--in return for additional information. How has this change come about...
Consider the original purpose which the off-the-record device was designed to serve, namely to better inform the reader. For instance, a reporter investigating a story might encounter a valuable source who is willing to give the reporter information, but only for the reporter's education, not for printing. The reporter decides that this so-called "background information"--though certainly not as good as usable, attributable information--is better than nothing, and he makes a verbal contract with his source not to print what his source tells him in exchange for the information...
...recognition he gained by leading the crusade to eliminate medicaid funds for abortions in Massachusetts. Flynn finished very poorly in the 1975 council race, but with the publicity garnered by his anti-abortion bill, he changed the rules of rabblerousing somewhat, using the issue to get his name in print rather than to create mass hysteria. It would be foolish, however, to discount the campaign help many right-to-lifers gave...
Last year, Matthews' father began trying to market his predictions by advertising in "Football News," a weekly sports tabloid. Matthews pere has yet to cash in big on his prognosticating powers but this season "Football News" has begun to print young Matthews' selections every week under the heading, "Matthews' grid ratings...
Biographer Ferris can fill in some blanks about Thomas' shaky finances, dig up the autopsy report that found Thomas' liver in reasonably good shape, even print unpublished verse of no particular distinction. In the end, the book seems too late with too little. But its main shortcoming is a failure to render the only Dylan Thomas that really matters-the maker of pagan word music that can still pass the A.E. Houseman power test by raising the hairs on the back of the listener's neck. - R.Z. Sheppard