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Once Upon a Time Inc. Mr. Luce's Fact Machine
Cort, David | February 18, 1956 issue

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The tone of every current mass magazine and large newspaper was set in the early 1920's by a young man named Briton Hadden, now long dead. His partner was Henry R. Luce and his organ "Time magazine" both very much still with the people. His early successes at winning arguments, slowly drew the exasperated attention of other editors and they adopted a similar impregnable, factual position. Every story in the above mentioned magazine is miraculously devoid of two things generally considered indispensable, sources and an author.

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MASS media; PERIODICALS; EDITORS; AUTHORS; HADDEN, Briton
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