The Press: Untelevisable Times

Will television put newspapers out of business? To help find out, the New York Times made a five-day test-yourself survey. Last week, at a meeting of the New York State Publishers' Association, the Times'''s Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger announced the comforting results. The Times is practically untelevisable.

"During those five days," he said, "the New York Times published just over 2,000 individual stories. In making this check, the stock table was counted as one story whereas reports from London and Berlin of the same situation were counted as separate stories. Of these 2,068 stories we calculate that 207, or 10%, would have...

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