Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such trivia was a sure sign that the nation was in the midst of that sultry vacationtime when people-and news events-wind down. Some editors claim that the modern news business resists the seasonal lassitude. But consider the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, which played on Page One a wire-service tale proclaiming that some 8,000 Americans are injured each year by toothpicks. Consider especially the Milwaukee Journal, which gave front-page display to the theft from a clothesline of 21 socks that were drying in the sun. And what of the 22nd? Tune in next August...
...museum publication, "ravishing a voluptuous nude female; breasts rhyme visually with hubcaps and headlights, hair with fenders, belly and buttocks with hood and trunk." Edward Kienholz's sculpture Back Seat Dodge '38 shows a truncated car, its front seat removed. In the back, a chicken-wire man and plaster woman are wrapped in beer bottles and each other. The license plate reads C692, EVERYWHERE...
...firm. The union will also gain a seat on U.P.I.'s board. The Washington-based news agency will slowly restore wages to their current levels by Dec. 15, 1985. "This is the worst agreement I have ever recommended to the membership," said William Morrissey, president of the Wire Service Guild. But Ruhe and Geissler took a less somber view. They expect the agreement to enable U.P.I, finally to turn a profit next year...
Although most news executives who testified before the Sidle commission agreed that the Pentagon should specify which wire services, newspapers, newsmagazines and broadcast networks would participate in such a pool, they insisted on reserving the right to choose which of their reporters would represent them, a condition the Pentagon has yet to accept. Even an arrangement such as that would not guarantee press access to all military actions. Said Burch: "The decisions have to be made on a case-by-case basis...
...longstanding agreement with other broadcasters that Reagan's warmup sessions were off the record. As a print reporter, however, Devroy was under no such constraint. After hunting down what Reagan had said, she consulted with her editors and they sent the item out on the Gannett wire. Within a day the story was being carried by every major news organization, including the two networks that had it to begin with but felt free to use it only after someone else had broken the off-the-record boundary...