Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foreign Ministry before it is sent. A.F.P. cables can take up to 20 hours to reach Paris, where the news agency translates and transmits them in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as French. As a result U.S. announcements of bombings in North Viet Nam usually scoop A.F.P. coverage. The dispatches sometimes sound prejudiced, since they must pass Hanoi eyes, but they do provide on-the-spot, visual confirmation of the raids. In addition, they report the comings and goings of Communist delegations, give glimpses of daily life in the North Vietnamese capital, and provide sketchy bits of information...
...exclusive. A scoop, Rather. But hold on. The President did not know that the cameras were on, said Press Secretary George Christian, who passed the word to Rather via a CBS Washington, D.C., studio executive. Dan can use the material that he got as the basis of a news report, but as for use of the taped interview itself, the President would Rather...
...Snooping on each other is standard operating procedure for both the Russian and U.S. navies. The Russians scoop up garbage dumped from U.S. warships in search of intelligence clues, use trawlers loaded with electronic equipment off Guam and in the Tonkin Gulf to monitor movements of U.S. warplanes and warn their friends in Viet Nam of their approach. The U.S., on the other hand, routinely buzzes Russian cargo ships on the way to Viet Nam for a customs inspection of sorts, tracks Russian submarines in the Mediterranean and elsewhere until they pop to the surface. Last week, however, this sort...
Reston's basic criticism of the press is that too much newsprint is being devoted to a mass of seemingly unrelated facts--hard news--and too little to analysis of the cause and development of our foreign policy. Newspapers should no longer concern themselves exclusively with the scoop, Reston argues; radio and television can handle speed reporting and bring the people to the scene of the crime. Instead papers should give reflective and background articles higher priority...
...make foreign policy decisions, but also to manipulate the news. In the President's eyes, reporters are either to be used or avoided. And Reston points out that the relationship is an unequal one because the President can decide when he makes an announcement, and whom he gives the scoop to--an advantage which allows him to reward one reporter and punish another. The ideal situation, Reston continues, would be to have the President use the press as an educating arm of the government which explained the problems of the State Department to the people...