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Unfortunately, Author Daley (who used to be a New York Times correspondent) commands a prose style all too reminiscent of the newspaper he satirizes. And the satire itself is nowhere near the first rank of press spoofery, which is occupied alone by Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Scoop! The Whole Truth can only be taken as a broad burlesque of pat-a-cake editors, cream-puff reporters, puff-piece journalists-crumb-bums...
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...
...Punta Arenas. Over the Strait of Magellan, the oil pressure in the right engine dropped to zero, forcing Fuenzalida to turn it off. The Piper lost altitude gradually, just made the runway. Sayle headed straight for the nearest wirephoto machine in Santiago, and next morning the Times splashed its scoop on the front page along with Sayle's pictures. Wrote Sayle: "The sight of Gipsy Moth plowing bravely through the wilderness of rain and sea was well worth...
...suspicion that the owner was going out on the town-but nobody was sure. The car was later seen in Georgetown, and it was assumed that he had had dinner there. Again, nobody knew for sure. Betty Beale, the Washington Star's society columnist, had a real scoop when she disclosed, almost three weeks later, that the Johnsons had attended a dinner at the Averell Harrimans'-and that every-one had had a fine time. The Johnsons' place cards had been filled in with the names of the Nicaraguan ambassador, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, and his wife...