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...introduced censorship. Quickly labeled "file now, die later" by the journalists, the system required reporters to deposit signed copies of all their files with the censor for possible use as "judicial evidence." The punishment for "false" reporting, spokesmen said, might be "the opposite of being thrown out." At the Transradio telex office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message that one correspondent sent to a colleague in Tokyo. When TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath relayed his file via the fragile...
...supply news copy for radio-station broadcasts? At the time, network radio stations were limited by the big press services to only two five-minute broadcasts a day, and most stations had only the sketchiest of news-writing services. Moore, a former United Pressman, raised $150,000, founded Transradio Press Service in Manhattan to supply news to radio stations by teletype and shortwave. Transradio prospered; by 1939 it had 400 radio and newspaper clients, 600 correspondents and stringers around the world...
...worked out new radio newscasting ideas, got some good beats, was dubbed by one admiring opposition boss "the University of Transradio" because so many of its trained men graduated to bigger, better-paying outfits. Transradio was too successful; U.P., I.N.S. and A.P. realized they had missed a bet in the radio field, began to peddle news themselves, put the squeeze on Transradio. Said Transradio President Robert Moore (brother Herbert branched off into the publishing business in 1942): "We lost one client here and one client there. We just kept getting smaller and smaller...
Last week, with only 50 clients and 25 staffers left, Transradio folded...
...much "preoccupation with crime." Transradio won praise for its "excellent" Washington report, but was censured for "using long, involved sentences." One thing radio wants for its listeners, said the committee, is more "quirks, chuckles and brighteners." But, the investigators said sadly, when the news services did try for the light touch they often "belabored the kick line before it was reached" and "some [of their stories] have no point...