Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney visited two Japanese cities-Osaka and Nagoya. His report...
...What kind of news are they getting? To find out, a special committee of the National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green...
...much "preoccupation with crime." Transradio won praise for its "excellent" Washington report, but was censured for "using long, involved sentences." One thing radio wants for its listeners, said the committee, is more "quirks, chuckles and brighteners." But, the investigators said sadly, when the news services did try for the light touch they often "belabored the kick line before it was reached" and "some [of their stories] have no point...
...before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...
...industry's productive facilities. National Biscuit Co. controlled 46.3% of all net capital assets in its industry in 1947. Armstrong Cork owned 57.9% of all the land, buildings and equipment in the linoleum industry. "Two giant organizations virtually preempt" the making of tin cans, charged the FTC report, with American Can Co. and Continental Can Co. sealing up a total of 92.1% of productive assets...