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A Peace Corps official described the editorial as `` precisely the message we need to communicate to the men and women who will soon be Peace Corps volunteers ''. | be | {
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F. L. Lucas 's article in SR 's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible. | seemed | {
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F. L. Lucas 's article in SR 's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible. | be | {
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I certainly hope this will be the impression left in the minds of readers, rather than the comment by Cleveland Amory in his First Of The Month column. | hope | {
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I certainly hope this will be the impression left in the minds of readers, rather than the comment by Cleveland Amory in his First Of The Month column. | be | {
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I certainly hope this will be the impression left in the minds of readers, rather than the comment by Cleveland Amory in his First Of The Month column. | left | {
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It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''. | is | {
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It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''. | say | {
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It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''. | Messing around | {
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It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''. | seems | {
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Lester Markel is on the right track in his article `` Interpretation of Interpretation '' [ SR, Mar. 11 ]. | is | {
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The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago. | was | {
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The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago. | protecting | {
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The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago. | flourished | {
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We do n't need this type of protection any more. | need | {
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The public is now armed with sophistication and numerous competing media. | armed | {
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Besides, there are no longer enough corruptible journalists about. | are | {
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The accepted method of writing news has two major liabilities. | writing | {
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The accepted method of writing news has two major liabilities. | has | {
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First, it does not communicate. | communicate | {
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A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute. | restricted | {
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A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute. | is | {
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A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute. | tell | {
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A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute. | knows | {
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Second, it subjects the news to distortion by the unscrupulous. | subjects | {
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The charges by the late junior Senator from Wisconsin not only destroyed innocent people but misled the nation. | destroyed | {
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The charges by the late junior Senator from Wisconsin not only destroyed innocent people but misled the nation. | misled | {
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Yet the press was powerless to put these charges in perspective in its news columns. | was | {
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Yet the press was powerless to put these charges in perspective in its news columns. | put | {
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despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating. | was | {
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despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating. | get | {
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despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating. | saw | {
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despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating. | seeing | {
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despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating. | had | {
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despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating. | communicating | {
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The Senator had boxed them in with their own restrictions. | boxed | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | seems | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | come | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | start | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | experimenting | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | reporting | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | learned | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | manipulate | {
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It seems to me the time has come for the American press to start experimenting with ways of reporting the news that will do a better job of communicating and will be less subject to abuse by those who have learned how to manipulate the present stereotype to serve their own ends. | serve | {
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The objective should be to provide a method of getting into print a higher percentage than is now possible of the relevant information in the possession of reporters and editors. | be | {
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The objective should be to provide a method of getting into print a higher percentage than is now possible of the relevant information in the possession of reporters and editors. | provide | {
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I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy 's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned. | like | {
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I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy 's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned. | see | {
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I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy 's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned. | devote | {
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I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy 's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned. | concerning | {
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I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy 's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned. | is | {
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You have on more than one occasion praised the idea of a televised press conference and the chance it gives the people to form intelligent opinions. | praised | {
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You have on more than one occasion praised the idea of a televised press conference and the chance it gives the people to form intelligent opinions. | gives | {
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You have on more than one occasion praised the idea of a televised press conference and the chance it gives the people to form intelligent opinions. | form | {
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To begin with, the all-powerful Los Angeles Times does not publish a transcript of these press conferences. | publish | {
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I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President. | am | {
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I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President. | was | {
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Next, because of the time differential, the conferences come on the networks during the middle of the day. | come on | {
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Up until now, the networks have grudgingly run half-hour tapes at 5 P. M. or sometimes 7 or 10 : 30 P. M.. | run | {
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Even then, a few of the `` less interesting '' questions are edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator. | edited out | {
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Even then, a few of the `` less interesting '' questions are edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator. | summarized | {
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However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs. | run | {
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However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs. | got | {
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However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs. | were | {
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However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs. | squeeze | {
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This is no criticism of them, as they obviously cannot get a half-hour program into a fifteen-minute news summary. | is | {
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This is no criticism of them, as they obviously cannot get a half-hour program into a fifteen-minute news summary. | get | {
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The radio stations did run `` transcripts '' ( I thought ) during the evening hours. | run | {
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The radio stations did run `` transcripts '' ( I thought ) during the evening hours. | thought | {
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However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President 's answer. | comparing | {
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However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President 's answer. | found | {
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However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President 's answer. | edited out | {
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However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President 's answer. | removed | {
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However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President 's answer. | regarding | {
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I am interested to know he is getting mail from all over the country about the `` abuse '' he is being subjected to. | am | {
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I am interested to know he is getting mail from all over the country about the `` abuse '' he is being subjected to. | know | {
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I am interested to know he is getting mail from all over the country about the `` abuse '' he is being subjected to. | getting | {
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I am interested to know he is getting mail from all over the country about the `` abuse '' he is being subjected to. | subjected | {
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We out here do n't see enough of the conference to know he is being abused. | see | {
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We out here do n't see enough of the conference to know he is being abused. | know | {
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We out here do n't see enough of the conference to know he is being abused. | abused | {
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I do n't know if this is the situation in other parts of the country ; apparently it is not. | know | {
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I do n't know if this is the situation in other parts of the country ; apparently it is not. | is | {
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I do n't know if this is the situation in other parts of the country ; apparently it is not. | is | {
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It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times. | happened | {
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It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times. | re-run | {
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It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times. | wrote | {
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He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations ' not doing this - but nothing happened. | mention | {
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He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations ' not doing this - but nothing happened. | received | {
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He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations ' not doing this - but nothing happened. | understand | {
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He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations ' not doing this - but nothing happened. | doing | {
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He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations ' not doing this - but nothing happened. | happened | {
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Can you bring the networks ' attention to this? | bring | {
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I was interested in James Webb Young 's MADISON AVENUE column in which he raised the question `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''? | was | {
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I was interested in James Webb Young 's MADISON AVENUE column in which he raised the question `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''? | raised | {
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I was interested in James Webb Young 's MADISON AVENUE column in which he raised the question `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''? | Need | {
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