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Following is a transcript of the show. The questioners are Lawrence Spivak and Sidney Lazard of NBC, Haynes Johnson of the Washington Star, and Thomas Winship of the Boston Globe. The program's moderator was Edwin Newman...
Barnyard Bath. Torn between literal reporting and euphemisms, the daily press is still struggling for balance. "We will use so-called crude words, but only when they are relevant to telling the story," says Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship. "It's titillating to use dashes, but it's adolescent to bathe people in barnyard words...
Most large-circulation national magazines go along with Winship. Playboy takes the attitude that obscene words are not to be used for what Editorial Director A. C. Spectorsky calls "shock value or the nervous laughter they might produce, but if the editorial context calls for them, we use them." Atlantic and Harper's both feel that their audience is ready for rough language. "With our literary and sociological claims," says Atlantic Editor Robert Manning, "I see no reason why we should not make judicious use of those words if they make the difference in portraying an extreme feeling." Harper...
...hairdressers were tearing their hair over the fact that none of the leading candidates' wives had patronized their establishments. If they brought along their own stylists, the Miamians fumed, they could be in trouble with the law because Florida forbids hairdressers to operate without a state license. Thomas Winship, editor of the Boston Globe, visited a makeup specialist who discussed the candidates' facial difficulties. Nixon, she said, had the most. "He has a hairline problem, greying sideburns, heavy shadows in the eye sockets, a black beard. Let's face it, he hasn't much going...
Primary resposibility for policy formulation lies with Winship and publisher William Davis Taylor. Winship glibly hands the credit for theGlobe'sstrength to the "wonderfully civilized Taylors" (William Davis--now running for the Harvard Board of Overseers--is only one of a number of Taylors who have owned and published theGlobe'sfor three generations). But although Taylor was responsible for the Globe's backing of Kevin White and consults with Winship on important questions, his contribution has largely been one of non-interference. The active policy-makers are Winship and Whipple...