[This article originally appeared in the Autumn 1974 issue of Nieman Reports.] The media—and in particular newspapers—are taken to task by Edwin Newman in the October [1974] issue of The Atlantic for appropriating words and phrases, overusing, abusing and, finally, … Read more
“It is my judgment that Mr. Johnson wants to hold control in his own hands.”—Strout. Photo by Jack Kightlinger, courtesy of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library Collection. [This … Read more
“Television by its nature has to move on…it cannot explain or expound.”—Muggeridge. Civil rights march on Washington, D.C., 1963. Photo courtesy of the Still Picture Branch, National Archives at College Park, … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the October 1951 issue of Nieman Reports.] The challenge of television to the newspaper is one which newspapermen cannot take lightly, and one which you must consider, as radio is having to do. What you … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the January 1949 issue of Nieman Reports.] “I never expected to see an old hand in the newspaper business cavorting in front of a bunch of cameras with his face covered by makeup.” Thus Danton … Read more
A school library in Farmville, Virginia. From plaintiffs’ exhibits—photographs filed in Dorothy E. Davis, et al. versus County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Civil Action No. 1333. Photo courtesy National Archives … Read more