Posted
6:44 PM
by Gene
TWXSTER NEWSRAG has always been about publicity; it was that way from the very first day when "
backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"; it was that way sucking up to executives until Henry Luce got the brilliant idea of doing it full-time through
Fortune; it was about selling presidential candidates -- Ike, JIMMAH -- and celebrities until
three full-throated organization men made that a separate Fort Knox of print; it has always been about selling something. Truth was a distant second. Who here remembers the several renditions of that highly promotional glorified docudrama series
The March of Time -- or that
Henry had a stake in the Blue Network (the future ABC)? No, for "Can't Anyone Here Edit This Rag?" Stengel to tout
this publicity stunt as curing cancer shows just how irrelevant PEOPLE WARNER's former flagship has grown; I wouldn't bet on it surviving to 2030.
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