Word: scoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace news? At bars where newsmen gather, pinning the blame will be a soul-searching pastime for years to come. But that miscarriage of news and the possibilities of similar miscarriages posed a bigger problem than the morals of the Associated Press's Ed-ward Kennedy, whose "scoop" went sour...
...hours, Ed Kennedy had a scoop which the A.P. touted to the fullest. But, as his colleagues in Paris irately pointed out, it was a scoop that anyone might have had if he were willing to break his word. The New York Times's Drew Middleton cabled that it was "the most colossal 'snafu' in the history of the war. I am browned off, fed up, burned up and put out." Fifty-four correspondents at SHAEF signed an angry soo-word protest, calling Kennedy's action "the most disgraceful, deliberate and unethical double cross...
Then came the details, dictated slowly and carefully. Dark-haired, alert, Brooklyn-born Edward Kennedy, 39, chief of A.P. war coverage in Europe, had the scoop of a lifetime. Midway in his story, the telephone connection faded...
Hanging around City Hall, he got to know local politicians. One of his heroes was William Alden Smith, an old-fashioned politico with a sugar-scoop coat and flowing black bow tie, who was soon to become U.S. Senator. In 1907, Smith bought the Herald. The morning after his purchase he walked into the office and found young Arthur Vandenberg sitting in the editor's chair. "I'm here to stay," said Reporter Vandenberg. He stayed - for 21 years...
...that stories cleared elsewhere, published, and therefore no longer involved in "military security" still could not be sent from SHAEF. Last week, SHAEF meted out the strongest punishment since D-day to a censorship violator: it canceled the credentials of BBC Correspondent Cyril Ray, who had an eleven-hour "scoop" on one story by simply bypassing censorship...