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...result was usually a scandal. Connoisseurs could find their way about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word...
Nearly all TIME'S correspondents and most of its writers and editors are former newspapermen. They are the same men (plus or minus a few pounds) who used to do their 2,000 words a day (or maybe an hour) and not be ashamed of the result. The newsmagazine idea sets up tougher professional standards, and the extra hours afford a chance to meet those standards...
This kind of war coverage was a result of deliberate policy. As one office memorandum...
...report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection. The selection is not, and cannot be, "scientific" or "objective." It is made by human beings who bring to the job their own personal experience and education, their own values. They make statements about facts. Those statements, invariably, involve ideas...
...define the nature of the most important fact in his experience: God. To this unending effort to know God, man is driven by the noblest of his intuitions-the sense of his mortal incompleteness-and by hard experience. For man's occasional lapses from God-seeking inevitably result in intolerable shallowness of thought combined with incalculable mischief in action...