Word: reston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reston Defines Error...
...misinterpretation of the early returns was a small part of a big problem that the A.P., brought up on strict factual reporting, still has to solve: how can it interpret complex news without losing its prized objectivity? Ex-A.P. man James B. ("Scotty") Reston, a topnotch interpretive reporter for the New York Times, and a guest speaker, let off a blast of steam on the subject: "I think [our] future depends on our developing adequate and intelligent means of explaining what is going on in the world. The news is getting more complicated every year...
...Without an explanation," said Reston, "the mere fact that the President has proposed to send Vinson to Moscow would have no meaning at all ... Straight news reporting of such stories leads them to uses for which they were never intended." Sometimes, he said, the A.P. removes one slant from a story only to give it another: "When [the A.P.'s] Jack Bell reported, "That's the first time I ever had a lunatic engineer," Mr. Dewey said sharply,' the A.P. desk in New York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously...
...letter to his own editor, the New York Times's Reporter James ("Scotty") Reston said: "The great intangible of this election was the political influence of the Roosevelt era on the thinking of the nation . . . We were wrong, not only on the election, but what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time...
...Melancholy Importance." Though Reston was the first to challenge Candidate Dewey's version of history, he was not the only one to note the discrepancies. Fortnight ago Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, in his only speech of the campaign, gave Dewey full credit for agreeing to bipartisan liaison at the top level. But he admitted that the bipartisan approach "was first initiated informally in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator Tom Connally of Texas." Ailing, 77-year-old Cordell Hull added a plague-on-both-your-parties footnote from a Bethesda...