Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ "We ourselves manufacture news. We make a practice of 'rounding up' opinion on events, occasionally manufacture news about our own crusades by playing them far out of proportion to the news value."
¶ "We make reference to 'high officials,' 'Administration circles' and the 'well-informed source.' Sometimes the 'well-informed source' is genuinely that, but occasionally it may be nothing more than a colleague at the press-club bar."
¶ "Under our doctrine of 'objectivity.' what a man says is news whether or not it happens to be true. When Senator McCarthy made wild charges, we blew them up-even after we knew them to be untrue."
¶ "We rigidly follow a formula of rewriting public speeches so as to emphasize what the reporter, sometimes with no knowledge of his own about the subject, thinks is the most important or sensational phrase."
When Kirsten Flagstad in 1935 made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Wagner's Die Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with "the irrecoverable magic" of Swedish-born Soprano Olive Fremstad.* Last week another Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode the Met's stage, and this time...