The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
WALTER WINCHELL
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to gain favor with reporters by
telling them that he always coop
Grated with the newspaper boys"
that he did many favors for the
newspaper boys that he ad-
mired the newspaper boys"
Reporter Richard V. Oulahan
listened to the blah-blah and said:
Senator, you have said a great
deal about what you are going to
do for the newspaper boys Would
it be ito much to ask you what
you expect to do for the news
papermen?"
This was editor Horace Whites
reply to those claiming news
papers must not take sides in po-
litical controversies: "a news
/ paper which merely linked over a
certain amount of white paper
each day might be a good col
lector of news, it might be sue
cessful as a business venture, but
it could leave no mark Upon its
time and could rave no histroy.'
Several years ago a Washington
flapjaW's o O Xious tactics
marked MIN stinky with the Capt.
tai press corps. Later, the wind
bag attempted to cop the Vice
PREF nomination. . But during the
convention the neWsmen worked
together. lobbying against it - al
though he was supported by their
publishers.
P. S. He never got the nomi-
nation.
No Chief Exec has ever escaped
a Journalistic roasting. john
Adams endeavored to silence his
critics by forcing Congress to pass
a press gag law that resulted in
failing and filming many newsmen.
The voters, however. we're aroused
by this attack against the free
dom of the press) and trounced
Adams and his party in the next
election. . Jefferson succeeded
Adams and released the newspa-
permen who had been put behind
bars.
But it wasn't long before he also
had his trouble with the press. The
attacks against Jefferson were so
savage he fought his belittlers via
a series of libel suits.
Then there's the classic about
the ward : heeler who became
mayor of a big city. His Honor"
was an ignorant dese-dem-dose
kerrickter. . He got uppity with
neWsmen and snubbed those who
had criticized his policies. . But
they made the mayor regret the
day he decided to shove them
around. They quoted his inter-
views verbatim-Without Dothering
to correct his grammatical /
ratum.
When a machine made poiitico
attacked the integrity of editor
VIM. Coleman years ago, the edi-
tol responded with: More against
truth you cannot say-than the
truth can say against you"
After a party leader criticized
Pulitzer for the N. Y. Worlds
i-cessant rapping at his party
Pulitzer Numbered: Publicity!
Publicity! Publicity. That is the
best offense against the forces of
evil! l am an honest journalist -
and I consider an honest journal
list one who is an officer in the
Department of Intelligence of the
Armies of the Good"
Teddy Roosevelt's press sec'y
once requested reporters to deny
a report hat TR was trying to
censor reporters. . When the de-
NAL was published the press sec'y
once again called in correspond
ents ana repeated his denial OF
the censorship and then asked
Il at they refrain from either pub
fishing his original request or his
denial.
When Carlisle SBargeron was
covering the Washington scene he
blasted a bigot in Congress. The
hate = merchant phoned Bargeron
ard challenged him to come over
to his office and settle their differ
ences h bare knuckles.
Bargeron took up the challenge.
He charged into the legislators Of
fee and snapped: "I'm P'arger-
The bigoted bul7y's kisser turned
ashen. He put out his hand to the
reporter and whined: I'm glad to
meet a man"