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...chronicle of botched hopes and personal failures. The government sinks in corruption and ineptitude. Idealistic university students stumble over their ignorance and lack of discipline. A servant girl's brief moment of romance leads to jungle rot and death in childbirth. Cynical political hacks are failed Communists and newspapermen are often failed poets who have difficulty with the fundamentals of news writing. "You have to start with the dead people, young man," advises one helpful editor. The novel's title does not refer to the church, which the author oddly does not deal with, but to a Lima...
...obviously fair to say that criticism of the press by the high and mighty is nothing new, just as it is historically accurate to note that newspapers and newspapermen have an encouraging way of outlasting any particular critic...
...three years ago. Poorman has since chaired a study on junketing for the Associated Press Managing Editors, and forbidden News staffers to accept any gratuities at all, but he sees no quick reform: "The whole issue is greeted with tightly controlled apathy on the part of many newspapermen...
Judge Fred Nichol (a folksy, jocular man who tries so hard to make jurors feel comfortable that they feel ill at ease) said that newspapermen were too tough to be influenced by the government. The prosecutor, a Young Republican type, said, "I'm not aware of any law forbidding conversations between agents of the federal government and newspaper editors!" He glanced at the spectators to see how his remark had come...
...they recognize the newsprint shortage as a fact of future life, some newspapermen are concluding that economizing on paper may have its beneficial side. St. Petersburg Times Editor Eugene Patterson has cut back news columns by 35% and told staffers to think up ways in which stories can be fully told in less space. Says Patterson: "It's a good time to look at the paper and clean out some of the deadwood we've been printing, if that's what...