Right flank attack on press shocks American journalism
George Seldes notes a rare rise of aggressive right wing criticism against the mass media, contrasting it with historic left-leaning muckraking. He cites John Birch Society claims, Tass rebuttals, and Vermont editors who defended a free press amid Watergate era scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Welch
John Birch Society
United States
Leonid M. Zamyatin
Tass
Valentin Zorin
Zamyatin
Nixon
U.S
Sinclair
Irwin
Steffens
Bennington News Briefs Include Missing Girls and Local Changes
Miss Lorraine Murray aged 15 and Catherine Kearns 16 are among recent missing youths in Bennington. A child, Richard Jones 9, narrowly escaped serious injury after being hit by a North Bennington delivery truck but survived with cuts and bruises. A new Amoco filling station opens at North and River streets, run with Looking Back Healy Brothers garage and Ned Healy Carl Miller and Harry Bentley providing service. The Hotel Putnam passes to new ownership with M W Henderson of Rutland as owner and Richard W Henderson as local manager. Graded School trustees defer plans for an adult woodworking course to gauge demand. Three Bennington banks report financing 324 veterans homes since 1944. Senate delays on Gov Gibson’s nomination to a Vermont judgeship. Gov Hoff urges labor and education reform backed by workingmen. State’s liberal Green Mountain Park racing plan costs $829,546 this year. Neil E Cross named superintendent of the Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union. References to Saratoga battles and President Garfield’s 1881 death are noted.
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Lorraine Murray
Fenest Murray
Charles Street
Bennington
Catherine Kearns
Brooklyn
Richard Jones
Mary Jones
North Street
Sherman Sweet
North Bennington
Richard
Fortune
Putnam
M.W. Henderson
Rutland
Henderson
Richard W. Henderson
Philip H. Hoff
Barry M. Goldwater
Green Mountain Park
Pownal
Neil E. Cross
Bennington-Rutland
Dispatch from the Farm The day the hired girl shut the barn door
John Gould recalls a vivid farm scene about a barn door that stuck and swallows nesting in a weather hood. The tale blends humorous carpentry detail with a spring ritual of opening and closing the door, ending with Hank Moran drenched and Nellie nicknamed Helpful Nellie.
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Nellie
Hank Moran
Two wheeled chariot
Federal Energy Administrator John C Sawhill notes a bicycle boom as the nation embraces two wheeled transport for recreation and commuting. He cites 1974 bike sales forecast at 15 million, more than auto sales, and highlights biking infrastructure efforts across states and regions.
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George Seldes
N.Y. Times
Windsor, VI
Will Irwin
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
Don Hollenbeck
A.J. Liebling
I.F. Stone
Boss Tweed
New York Times
Spiro T. Agnew
Richard M. Nixon
Franklin B. Smith
Burlington Free Press
Vermont
America
Green Mountain State
White House
Smith
Nicholas von Hoffman
Rutland Herald
Doppers
The
American Gas and Oil Co
North and River Streets
Healy Brothers Garage
Ned Healy
Carl Miller
Harry Bentley
Amoco
Senate
Truman
Gov
Gibson
George D. Aiken
Saratoga
James Garfield
Elberon
N.J
John Gould
Christian Science Monitor News Service
Friendship, Maine
Fiedler
Ray Nelson
Cap’n Potter
Mason
Hank
Berg
Southern Vermont
Complete Home & Building’ ‘Supply Center
Greenberg
Main St. Benn
Supply Paint Appliances F.C
Franks
Safford & Gage Y Papers
John C. Sawhill
Federal
Washington
Montgomery County
Maryland
San Francisco
San Luis Dam
Los Banos
San Diego
Oregon
Wisconsin
Bennington Co-Op
Bennington Co-Op Savings and Loan
Main St
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