Word: print
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are many power centers in a free society-foundations, corporations, the print press-whose top executives are not "elected" and have no political constituency. Many people are legitimately concerned about the responsibility and power such men wield. One answer is that they represent an important counterweight to the sometimes excessive power of Government; another is that their influence is limited by competition and diversity. In TV, greater diversity is undoubtedly possible through proper financial support of the fourth, public network and a larger number of local stations...
...Broadcast Journalism 1968-1969 (Grosset & Dunlap Inc.; $1.95). Prepared by a jury of five people who know their TV well,* the report indicted the industry for dereliction of its duty to the American people-although not in the sense meant by Agnew. Among its conclusions: broadcasting is far behind print in investigative reporting, "documentary programming hit a new low" and reporting of the 1968 election campaign did not adequately inform the electorate. In a personal postscript. Sir William Haley kissed off much of U.S. news coverage as "meretricious, superficial and spotty." The survey hammered at what it called "the real...
...First Circle and Cancer Ward, which are banned in the Soviet Union because they are a devastating portrayal of conditions in Stalin's concentration camps. Matushkin, however, contended that the West uses the books "to throw mud on our motherland." "How do you explain that they so eagerly print you in the West?" he asked. "And how do you explain that they obstinately refuse to publish me in my own country?" retorted Solzhenitsyn, who insisted that he had forbidden the appearance of his works in the West. He added that "we cannot keep silent forever about the crimes...
...Truck Store turned a modest profit of $300, and Brand decided to expand into a mail-order operation that would provide wider, more efficient dissemination of theory, fact and artifact. Working for months with a small staff of testers and contributors, he turned out a catalogue with a first print order of 2,000. The book quickly proved so popular that he issued a second edition of 30,000 last spring, will produce a third, extensively revised version this month with a press...
...Misrepresentation." The fine print on the seal promises only that Hearst will replace a defective product that it endorses or refund the buyer's money. Now, however, a three-judge state appeals court in San Diego has ruled in Mrs. Hanberry's case that the magazine may be sued for damages when goods that it guarantees cause injury...