Word: printing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newspapers have the space to place any situation, particularly this one, in context. Print journalists are now allowed to reason away diplomatic ineptitude as a consequence of this conflict's complexity. They explain who holds what territory and delve into the history books to note who has held that territory before. The main purpose of a newspaper, after all, is to rationalize even the most outrageous of events, fit them neatly into columns and write a first draft of that puzzle called history...
...urgency and action and demanding of a response. I'd imagine that from watching it, one would have expected some sort of revenge is which good defeats evil and follows with a sermon about right and wrong. But unfortunately for the Bosnian Muslims, the war was fought in bloodstained print. Alas, our capital is not Hollywood--no one's requiring a happy ending...
...differential high lights the contrast between a television nation and a government engulfed by newspapers. I can't help thinking what would happen if this were truly a television war, fought in real time and not in the reprints of yesterday's news. Because while the print media describes the war as drawing to an end, the curtain has not closed. The situation is extremely malleable, and more creativity might be expended than is necessary to maintain the current momentum of Serbian victories...
Imagine if you will a meeting of the local Charity League--where the most progressive debate has been over whether or not to print the names of women donating recipes to the annual cookbook with a "Mrs." in front of them. Enter Grace, who, instead of keeping the group updated on the cookbook's progress, stands up and asks, "Excuse me, but has anyone else here fucked my husband? Because I think I have a right to know...
...bless the muckrakers. your Milestone stirred up fond memories of critic George Seldes [CHRONICLES, July 17] and his wonderful newsletter, In Fact, which contained news "the press refuses to print." In the 1940s he published a shocking account of smokers and cancer and sadly concluded that in deference to advertisers, the mainstream press would not touch it. It was two decades before anyone else seriously broached the subject. STEWART EAST Santa Clarita, California