Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five manuscripts weren't collected or printed, including Thorn ton Wilder's lecturers for 1950-51. "The American Literature." Unlike the gregarious Frost, Wilder was supposed to have prepared his lectures very carefully. But despite the large amount of time he put into them, the novelist/playwright was reluctant to publish a critical work...
Colby's request immediately created a dilemma for the newsmen. Each organization had to decide whether to withhold knowledge from the public of a secret Government operation or publish a story that, as Colby argued, might damage the nation's defenses. In short, the press was face to face with an old question: When does the right of the people to know end and the need to protect national security begin...
THERE MIGHT BE times when a paper should withhold news, but only if the consequences of disclosure are certain and disastrous. (The classic example is that a newspaper should not publish in advance the details of troop movement during wartime. Fair enough.) But there was nothing certain or disastrous about the consequences the CIA claimed would follow publication of the sub salvage story...
...nonsense--watching what the other guy does before deciding whether to print news you have--permeated the sub salvage story as well. When Colby visited one news organization, he would always brag about the others that he had "locked up"--in other words, that he had convinced not to publish the story. As a result, newspapers and networks watched each other with special care, anxious for a sign that the story was about to break. There was no concern for getting the news out; the concern was with not getting scooped by the opposition. When Anderson broke the story...
Regrettably the law provides that publication rights of these letters remain the property of the senders. I am not permitted to publish them. To serve the public's right to know I ask that these letters be made available to The Crimson by their senders for publication. Then the Harvard University public can judge for itself of the insufficiency and self-sufficiency of their senders and the need for improvement in the relationship of the university to its external and internal publics. Edward I. Bernays