Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five cents) print is as definitely circumscribed as a correspondent's movements in Russia. Foreign news is pretty much identical, even to headlines, in all eight papers. Editing is slanted, and, by selection, news distorted. Crime news, despite the fact that there is an abundance of crime to report, is played down. There is considerable criticism of the arts. The rest of the printed news consists almost entirely of stories that are 1) admonitory (general and often specific criticism of conditions in the Soviet Union), 2) exhortatory (to spur desirable activities like 'the proper service of customers...
...problem of getting the news of Russia-and getting it out of Russia-is, as you know, a major concern of the U.S. and the world press. A corollary of this problem, the Soviet press itself, is the subject of a recent report by Craig Thompson, now home from a two-year tour of duty for TIME & LIFE in Moscow. The following excerpt from it may interest...
Bucket Brigade. The House Appropriations Committee reported out its ninth bill covering 33 independent Government offices. The report sizzled. "Almost nowhere in the Government is there any semblance of cost accounting. . . . Billions of dollars have been spent which can never be properly accounted for. . . ." The committee recommended giving the 33 offices a total of $8,168 million-$330 million less than they had asked...
...could come in "on contact" (fly within sight of the ground). When Washington flashed an O.K., Stark started down from 7,000 feet. At 6:13, when he had passed over Martinsburg, W. Va., and was almost clear of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Stark made his last report-3,000 feet and still descending (through rain and fog) for a look at the ground. After that, Flight 410 was heard no more...
...arrival of Government troops stirred anger and alarm in hunchbacked, round-faced Chen Wei-fu. He is one of Paiyen's few intellectuals-a primary schoolteacher who had wholeheartedly joined the Communists and become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must...