Word: scoopfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...simply impossible to conjecture that the networks did anything other than report the facts as they saw them; any other approach would be vulnerable to ruthless exposure by a competitor. And any media organization, however small, which had correctly predicted the return would have made the election scoop of the century...
...White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. The President was pleased to concentrate on that subject, he said with a smile, because "there are a great many misperceptions out there about the situation now. As a matter of fact, if you correct the misperceptions, you 'II have an exclusive scoop." Highlights of the interview...
...employees claim, the mortuary crammed corpses five at a time into gas ovens built for one. The jumbled ashes were allegedly dumped into 30-gal. trash cans. Then, says Bob Kilburn, a funeral refrigeration-supply manufacturer who installed a cooler at Harbor Lawn three years ago, "they'd scoop up ashes with a pail and fill ten cardboard boxes, type up ten labels and proceed to make ten people." In other words, the remains of Aunt Felicia might be liberally sprinkled with the ashes of someone else's Cousin Harold or Uncle Fred. Says Kilburn: "I guess that...
...case against the fallen business hero, charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his faltering De Lorean Motor Co. The broadcast came only nine days before jury selection was to start in the trial in Los Angeles. While CBS officials were pleased by their scoop, prosecutors and defense lawyers, plus many of the network's peers in journalism, denounced CBS for unnecessarily jeopardizing John De Lorean's right to a fair trial...
...decision to run the tapes to baser motives, and wondered what purpose had been served by not waiting for the trial. Nat Hentoff, a New York City journalist and longtime First Amendment defender, charges that CBS's purpose was "titillation and sensationalism," an example of how the "scoop syndrome sometimes becomes a disease." Concludes Hentoff: "They have every right to do it, but they ought to be ashamed of themselves...