Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S effort to tell the news of this tragic and gaudy era through a new kind of journalistic medium, the newsmagazine, has been an experiment in communication. This report on where the experiment is today must begin with the newsmagazine idea, because that is still the mainspring of what makes TIME tick...
...Generally speaking, a newspaper or radio reporter (leaving aside columnists and commentators) is concerned with reporting the single event. When Ernest Bevin proposed a Western European Union, the first and main job of the daily correspondents was to report what he said as quickly and accurately as possible. We had three days. We could assume that TIME'S editors knew what Bevin had said; our main job was to tell them what we and others thought it meant, what he did not say, etc. We had to supply clear, unbroken quotes of his key remarks. The whole...
TIME got the sense of that assumption into its report of the conference-but in so doing it missed a lot of excitement. Most of the dailies panted through new crises with every edition. If Molotov frowned, peace was doomed. If he conceded a minor point, Russian basic policy seemed to have undergone a complete transformation. Radio listeners could almost hear the thud of hooves in the background of the conference bulletins. "Now Molotov's ahead. But he looks tired. Stettinius called a press conference. . . ." All this nonsense was so vastly confusing (and so essentially false) that many readers...
That TIME'S editors (along with many others) had a pretty good idea where the conference was coming out did not deter them from covering it. The TIME-LIFE Bureau at San Francisco, under Washington Bureau Chief Robert Elson, numbered about 15, one of the largest groups of reporters TIME Inc. had ever sent to one place. Their job was not to add to the din, but to place each week's report in a perspective that fitted the facts, and to report the kind of detail that got over to the reader the real character...
...jawed, bucktoothed, moose-tall, haystack-haired race. "TIME style" served a purpose; it used a showman's trick to call attention to the fact that TIME had a style of editing and thinking, that TIME was not a jumble of "eye-terns," but an integrated report...