Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official emissary of a state dedicated to world conquest-was well concealed by the other: a good-will salesman, radiating charm, beaming his subtle pitch directly at the people, and possessing the built-in news value of a mysterious visitor from a mysterious land. The dilemma was: How to report on the fascinating, amiable salesman while keeping a clear eye on the suspicious nature of his wares...
...said the committee in a resolution before the conference, "we found quotations of theologians and conferences as far back as Chrysostom and the Council of Laodicea [ probably 4th century] with constant and consistent warnings against the dangers [of dancing]." But through the years there has also been a minority report. The committee conclusion: If, after consideration, a Lutheran group finds social dancing "in accord with its objectives and to the best Christian interests of its members ... it may permit the same under careful supervision and guidance, always striving toward the goal that whatsoever we do in word or deed...
Across the country a score of other call girls willingly spoke their stories into the tape recorders of CBS reporters, and so did the businessmen who hired the girls. Titled The Business of Sex and punctuated by comment from Narrator Ed Murrow. the hour-long report was intended to document a cynical alliance between prostitution and business...
...program added up to a good job of tabloid reporting. While the facts were scarcely new, the anonymous voices (disguised by electronic gadgets to prevent identification) made for excitement. The show was a sample of a growing form of radio journalism, used in the past on CBS's report on juvenile delinquency and on the Murphy-Galindez case. Despite its authenticity and immediacy, the trouble with such reporting is apt to be lack of evaluation. The Business of Sex raised but never attempted to answer the crucial question of whether the use of prostitutes in business is "an isolated...
...inherent bigness. Anderson contends that the Government must pay a big part of the cost in the transition from pilot models to full-scale plants because private industry cannot afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money if it builds two or three generations of prototype models, learning from each stage. But the report offered a back-door approach to meeting Anderson's objection: the Government would "substantially" increase its applied research expenditures on civilian nuclear power, thus taking...