Word: publishability
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...York magazine did publish three major details from Haldeman's book two weeks before any other publication, but the information was obtained completely from outside sources. Our news was carried by all major wire services crediting New York magazine, and subsequently the report was reprinted in newspapers across the country at the same time it appeared in the New York Post...
Among his hobbies, Flynt acquired a fascination for the Kennedy killing. He bought full-page newspaper ads offering $ 1 million for information leading to the arrest of Kennedy's murderers. In the underground Los Angeles Free Press, he published a report last month charging that a CIA-FBI conspiracy was behind the assassination. After last week's attempt on his life, Flynt's wife Althea, 24, publicly accused the CIA of shooting Flynt because he was about to publish the names of J.F.K.'s assassins in a Free Press special edition. From his hospital bed, Flynt...
Will the Washington Post strike again? "That's an iffy question. I'll duck that," says Post Publisher Katharine Graham. "In general, papers should find news as much as they can. If they find it, they should publish it." Has she told her Post editors not to pursue the Nixon book? "Heck, no," said Graham. Besides, as Post Ombudsman Charles Seib wrote only half-jokingly in his press commentary last week, the paper now has a reputation to uphold. Said he: "It is obvious what the Post must do if it is not to lose face...
...cliched, yet truly invidious spirit of big business. In the past, the average newspaper or magazine did not share the considerations foremost in the thinking of a large corporation. A publication was obliged to consider sales and profits for purposes of economic viability, so that it might continue to publish and prosper in more than financial aims. The desire to increase profit for profit's sake, to expand, to consolidate, to dominate in a corporate fashion was basically alien to the press and its historical function of news dissemination. It is a subtle and very essential distinction between the press...
...being God, and displayed such human traits as doubt and ignorance. Similar points are made by a German-trained Basque, Jon Sobrino, who has written the most thorough study of Christ's nature based on Latin America's "liberation theology." The Maryknoll Fathers' Orbis Books will publish it in English in June as Christology at the Crossroads. Sobrino, a Jesuit and professor at the Universidad José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador, says that Christians working for justice should realize that Jesus was mistaken in his social outlook because he expected the imminent...