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Many in television are ex-newspapermen and, being aware that an entire half-hour newscast would not fill even one newspaper page, are apologetic for the superficiality and skimpiness of what they do. They hope to see network news shows extended to a full hour. Perhaps they should relax a little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast...
...three now returned to the Post for further observation of its people and its workings. The hassle over the first-draft script had worked a subtle change in the atmosphere; there was a new wariness in the relationship between the moviemakers and the newspapermen. Hoffman was particularly distressed. At one point he marched on Redford, crying, "Screw it. Let's fictionalize it. I just hate the attitudes around here. Everybody will know what paper we're really representing. What's the difference?" Redford, too, was unhappy. "The ambivalence of the Post drove me nuts," he recalls. He also feels that...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and director of the Japan Institute, said of his experience with foreign visitors, "The ones I see have some interest in East Asia itself, and want to talk to me as an authority. Most are European newspapermen who ask my opinion on American-East Asian foreign policy...
Died. Robert Bernard (Bob) Considine, 68, one of the best-known U.S. newspapermen and author of numerous books and movie scripts; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Considine began his journalistic career as a sports reporter in 1930 and by 1933 had begun writing his wide-ranging "On the Line" column. Associated with the Hearst publishing empire since 1937, he covered major news events for nearly 40 years. On the side, he wrote movie scripts (The Babe Ruth Story) and biographies of such friends as Jack Dempsey and General Douglas Mac Arthur...
...little uneasy because he's not used to having a lot of questions fired at him by people he doesn't know and who seem to have no sympathy for him or any of the other characters they ask about. And he says he resents the presumption of newspapermen, to summarize what he has said in one or two paragraphs of newsprint in some daily paper. Ideas, he says, are communicated by whole conversations or whole books...