Word: restraint
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Among her editorial peers around the country, Fanning is noted as a voice for restraint. She is chairman of the ethics committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and during a panel discussion of privacy issues at A.S.N.E.'s convention in May, she said that "the public reaction to the press is finally getting through, and it may lead to a more humane journalism." Says Publisher James Hoge of the Sun-Times: "Fanning is always asking a series of questions to get your opinion on this or that. Yet she does not edit a paper by public opinion...
...journalists approved a resolution which called for examination of a series of reforms. They suggested moving voter registration, which in some states is as much as a month before the election, to election day, and keeping the polls open for 24 hours. And they encouraged networks to exercise voluntary restraint in using exit polling to project election winners on the argument that voters hearing an early projection would feet that their vote counted less, and would be less likely to use it. Participants were pleased with what they saw as progress on a pressing matter...
...Essay beginning on page 24 details, two of the great themes of the past 60 years have been the excesses of freedom and the rediscovery of the need for restraint. In trying to define restraint, in trying to make the many choices before America, the country conspicuously lacks a consensus and a principle of authority. Journalism cannot supply these. But it can at least attempt to provide the information needed for a renewal of consensus, perhaps even a reconstitution of authority. TIME hopes to continue playing a part in that task...
...blessing, that they have really received one." Which is to say that when people or ideas are unfettered, they are freed but not yet free. To be free, in fact, seems to require an attitude opposite that which sets one free: a sense of reasonable limitations, of self-governing restraint, the acknowledgment that one is able to escape from anything except his skin. Nothing new in such a lesson, of course. But it will have mattered to learn...
...have seen the faces of young people in love and the faces of old people at peace with their God. I have never seen in any face such joy as radiated from the faces of the people of Paris this morning. This is no day for restraint, and I could not write with restraint if I wanted to. Your correspondent and your photographer Bob Capa drove into Paris with eyes that would not stay dry, and we were no more ashamed of it than were the people who wept as they embraced...