Word: brucker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Brucker, articulate editor of the Hartford Courant and newly elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, took a more practical tack. Hoping to put the issue in perspective, and also to put it on the shelf, he suggested that he and his colleagues "put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes...
Managed news is old hat. Brucker said; what is new "is the open defense of it as a patriotic virtue...
...Brucker conceded that "no one wants to risk hurting the common cause by prying too much or spilling secrets," but he did object to the fact that the Administration seems to regard any attempt to get information about its actions as "an irresponsible act that risks spilling the military beans, an all but traitorous tipping-off of the enemy to our defense secrets." Said Brucker: "That is managed news with a vengeance. It is more in the tradition of Dr. Goebbels than our own." In fact, it reminded him of a World War II parody of Kipling...
...nature of things that government and the press should often be at odds," said Brucker, particularly when the government is engaged in a Cold War with a clever, secretive enemy. "Even so, we hold in our hands the weapon with which to conquer managed news. It is the same weapon that has always won against earlier attempts to conceal and manipulate. What is that weapon? It is the newspaper reporter...
...alumni are 132 newspaper publishers and editors, 46 magazine editors, a score of journalism school deans, ten Pulitzer prizewinners and a raft of New York Timesmen (78 at last count). To celebrate, Columbia lured three big-name journalists to the campus for Doctorates of Humane Letters: Alu nus Herbert Brucker ('24), Hartford Courant editor, newest president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill; and New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston...