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The headline for an Associated Press release (February
25, 1963) read:
PRESS BLAMED FOR SUCCESS
KENNEDY MANAGES NEWS BOLDLY,
CYNICALLY, SUBTLY, KROCK CLAIMS
Arthur Krock is quoted as saying that “the principle onus
rests on the printed and electronic process itself.” That may
seem like another way of saying that “history is to blame.” But
it is the instant consequences of electrically moved information
that makes necessary a deliberate artistic aim in the placing
and management of news. In diplomacy the same electric speed
causes the decisions to be announced before they are made in
order to ascertain the varying responses that might occur
when such decisions actually are made. Such procedure, quite