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Whichever edition you read, Reston's "modest proposal" for equipping the press to deal with a changing society and an increasingly powerful President is a challenge to modern journalism...
THOUGH James Reston would be a big gun in anyone's army, The Artillery of the Press does not exactly come over as a surprise barrage. Most of what is now being sold for $2.45 in hardback was shot off a year ago in the July issue of Foreign Affairs. The book adds little to Reston's earlier article, in which he presented his views on the state of the Press in succinct and felicitous prose...
...Reston's basic criticism of the press is that too much newsprint is being devoted to a mass of seemingly unrelated facts--hard news--and too little to analysis of the cause and development of our foreign policy. Newspapers should no longer concern themselves exclusively with the scoop, Reston argues; radio and television can handle speed reporting and bring the people to the scene of the crime. Instead papers should give reflective and background articles higher priority...
...effectively organize the news for the public, Reston advocates a new format for reflective articles which he calls "case study outlines." Instead of the old style pyramid reporting which gives the most dramatic facts in descending order of sensational value, Reston advocates a new kind of reporting specially designed to pose foreign policy alternatives. First would come an objective statement of the relative facts, then a policy alternative with arguments for and against, followed by description and debate of other possible courses of action...
...feature on the new town of Reston, Virginia (March 29th). Miss Shapley incorrectely implied that the picturesque houses-over-shops were quickly sold. Actually, the high rise apartments rented quickly: the houses were slow to move. When so brave an especially urgent that the feed-back be accurate...