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...large extent the Monitor's excellence derives from Editor Erwin Dain Canham, 53, veteran newspaperman who has little but scorn for the artificial "objectivity" that cloaks the superficiality of much news writing. Says "Spike" Canham: "We believe that the balancing fact should be attached directly to the misleading assertion. News interpretation, with all its hazards, is often safer and wiser than printing the bare news alone. Nothing can be more misleading than the unrelated fact, just because it is a fact and hence impressive." Example: during the rise of the late Joe McCarthy, the Monitor...
Under gentle, scholarly Spike Canham, the Monitor has shucked many of its old customs, become lighter and brighter. Of late it has run stories about such long-taboo topics as organized crime, prostitution and homosexuality, not infrequently reports that a person has died rather than "passed on"-a sharp departure from World War I days when, it is related, a hard-pressed correspondent, described a battlefield littered with "passed-on mules." When it comes to profit, the Monitor has netted only $260 in the past 15 years; it firmly excludes a long list of advertisers it does not condone...
Instead of jerry-building new security barricades, reasoned some Monday-morning missilemen, the Pentagon should try to see that the public is not again gulled by over-optimistic news stories. One way to assure "full and balanced dispatches," suggested the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin D. Canham, would be to give newsmen full briefings on the next Vanguard test, but insist that they file their stories on a "hold-for-release" basis for use after the shoot. Straight from the launching pads came the best-aimed proposal of all. Said Lieut. Colonel Sid Spear, public relations officer...
...their hands, the reporters just let the pundits talk (complained ABC's Martin Agronsky: "There's no fight here and I'm not going to make one"). ABC lined up an able but monotonous panel of experts: Author Quincy (The World We Lost) Howe, Erwin Canham (Christian Science Monitor) and Ernest Lindley (Newsweek). CBS's Sevareid-Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy...
...hours of negotiating, the grim men decided to surrender and face the consequences (up to 20 added years). "Until almost the precise moment when [the four] pulled their guns from their dungarees pockets, slipped out the clips or bullets, and tossed them on the table before us," wrote Canham, "we did not know whether the men would choose tragedy or hope...