Word: prints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writes Editor Markel: "I don't outlaw Dick Tracy or Li'I Abner, but I insist that a newspaper shall print a goodly amount of information. In the long run, [editors] will discover that they cannot compete with TV in the variety field, and therefore that the future lies in the information area. Too many of them have abdicated this function to the news weeklies and to the silver-screen, gold-plated commentators. They had better move quickly to regain their news standing." Other Markel criticisms: ¶ "Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information...
...print an article about how clubs banded together to subsidize legal clearance for a wife charged with drilling her husband, and yet you seem to have no idea of the ramifications. I propose a counter-fund to provide legal counsel for husbands who may themselves revert, in a fit of pique, to the matrimonial-jungle law of divorce-by-firearms. Let's get this thing rolling before the girls realize that they now can rid the house of a mate as quickly and economically as kitchen garbage...
...Cater, whose paper appears in a town where thousands of aircraft workers are out of jobs, defiantly ran the telegram on Page One. Retorted he: "The Review is going to go right on publishing the news. When it's good news, we'll be very happy to print it. But when it's bad, I'm afraid we'll have to print that...
...whom Ben Hecht dubbed "The White Fang" ran Columbia as if he were the master of an ancient trireme. He had no illusions about his popularity-and cared less. "If you print anything good about me," he once told a reporter, "nobody will believe it." He got the most out of his staff by forcing them to defend their ideas against withering blasts of personal abuse, vulgarity and threats, on the theory that only the best ideas could withstand such a test. His methods paid off. While other film companies were bending under the Depression, Columbia showed increasing profits...
...criminal records in obituaries, drops stories that might needlessly embarrass the subject, and uses a double standard in reporting some news, e.g., carrying squibs on the doings of the town drunk, but killing the drunken-driving episode of a prominent citizen. When an editor tries to decide what to print and what to kill, he said, he "must understand that uncompromising honesty carries cruelty in its saddlebags, and that too much gentleness will help evil thrive...