Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Columbia 5, Stony Brook...
...court, Redstone wears nondescript suits and owns the same three- bedroom home in Newton, Massachusetts, that he and his wife Phyllis paid $42,000 for 35 years ago. He favors the less fancy Pine Brook Country Club in nearby Weston over the prestigious Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline. He spends weekdays in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel to be near Viacom headquarters. Often rising at 5 a.m., he reads the morning papers and then works out on a treadmill while watching TV. His days last up to 18 hours. "I live modestly," Redstone says. "Possessions don't count. Achievement counts. Winning...
...that is indeed so, one might be tempted to dismiss the story of Brook's career as just so much irrelevant nostalgia. That, however, would be a mistake. Brook's tale of small-town weekly newspapering has lessons for everyone--from the grandest of metropolitan daily editors to the lowliest of small-town weekly readers...
These lessons are repeated time and time again in journalism classes and reviews and at speeches and conferences at the Kennedy School of Government, the Nieman Foundation and even The Harvard Crimson. But reading Brook's book, and following along as he runs his award-winning paper the hard way, show the truth of these ideas in a far more convincing way than any recitation of principles...
...book, Brook has the reader believing that the hard way really is the best--and wishing that more newspapers tried to do it the hard way more often...