Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free Air. Five years ago that realm was almost void of radio pundits. Today there are about 60 of them on the four big national networks-plus a host of straight news broadcasters and at least one would-be local pundit for most of the 900-odd U.S. stations. Their combined impact is superseding the newspaper as America's Page-One-news source...
Source of Error. Confession is good for the soul of America, doubly so when it results in a useful book. Troubled, groping, weakened by many a long historical digression, U.S. Foreign Policy suggests that Pundit Lippmann is at a halfway point in the clarification of his views, has shed many an old illusion without quite working out a new position to replace them. The illusions were general...
Phony Policy. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out last week, for two years the Administration has pursued a phony price policy because it seemed easier. When huge economic incentives are being paid-as they have to be-to make war production vast, a rigid ceiling on civilian goods prices is undesirable: it creates inflation by making goods more valuable than dollars, and it minimizes the production of consumer goods. Rationing and price control were sold to the public as anti-inflation measures, whereas they are actually social measures...
Anxiety & Peace. One man who recognized the anxiety, and seemed to discover its cause, was Pundit Walter Lippmann. A few hours before a bullet ended Admiral Darlan's baffling career, he wrote: "... We have been put to a very severe moral test in North Africa, and ... we are not meeting that test in a way which satisfies our consciences and keeps our spirits whole...
Many a U.S. newsman, many a U.S. newspaper joined the outcry: said Amazonian Pundit Dorothy Thompson: "To say [that such censorship is necessary] is tantamount to claiming that the most profound issues of this war may not be publicly discussed, or if publicly discussed, must be confined within the United States." Said Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney: Reasonable censorship of war news to prevent the enemy from receiving advantage is acceptable to everyone. Censorship of opinion is sabotage of the Four Freedoms...