Word: newspapermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most wounding discovery is how much people dislike the very professionalism that newspapermen pride themselves on most-the ability to transmit facts without bias or feeling, in the best deadpan Dragnet manner of "only the facts, ma'am." People who are used to having Cronkite or Chancellor escort the news into their homes feel no connection with reporters, even those with recognized bylines, who impersonally fill their front pages. That contrast asserts Arnold Rosenfeld, editor of the Dayton Daily News, often favors TV personalities "who we print journalists think do a pretty lame job of news gathering...
...pollsters' jargon, readers have shifted from "self-improvement" to "self-fulfillment." To follow that trend, editors have been adding all those service features about what to eat and how to cope, which readers may like but newspapermen despair over. Another sign of the reader's "me" emphasis is a decided preference for local news. Yet, oddly enough, even though only a third of the readership follow national and international news closely, most readers seem to want it there on Page One and tend to resent front-page feature stories. Another third of the audience would read hard news...
...next day, after a restful night at his secretary Nathaniel Simpkin's North Shore home, Hanfstaengl returned for Commencement exercises, ready to do battle with waiting hordes of "newspapermen, photographers, Communists, radicals and liberals." There were some on campus, though who were more friendly to the beaming Nazi. The Harvard Crimson, for one, had recommended that "in recognition of his government," he be given an honorary degree, an idea that prompted protesters to coat the campus with signs calling on the University to award Hanfstaengl "a Bachelor of Book Burning...
...Newspapermen are usually too worn and worried to be credible as heroes, even to their own very young children. But to Ralph Schoenstein, his father was the New York version of Superman: "Not a mild-mannered reporter who put on a cape in a telephone booth, but a commanding editor who could use a telephone booth to get tickets to any sold-out Broadway show." Father Paul was city editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the U.S.'s biggest evening paper through the '40s and '50s. He had muscular clout as well; his arms...
...when asked by newsmen in Washington whether reporters covering the 1980 Olympics in Moscow will be similarly harassed, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin snapped: "You know perfectly well what is slander and what is not." He said there will be "no harassment that will hurt doing your job as newspapermen...