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by-lines and the date lines and where they come from.”
No because we never did do that. We still don't run two seperate stories side by side.
No, but I--
No.
The question I--
The by-line--
Was that a function of this tension over the Vietnam reporting?
No, I remember being involved in that argument. But that argument, as I recall, started well before. And I made the argument that you had to have a by-line in the cultural areas.
The back of the book.
Yes. Because I said, “I want to know who thinks this play is good or not, and to have anonymity is bad.” And I think we did start with by-lines in the back of the book and then gradually it moved on and on until finally it became by-lines everywhere where you had the name of the writer and, “assisted by,” and so on, so on.
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