Word: circe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clinton, Ill., a farming hamlet 150 miles southwest of Chicago, a reporter for the weekly DeWitt County Observer (circ. 3,150) got a tip last October on the biggest story of her life. In a five-hour taped interview, a source spilled out a tale of corruption and brutality involving County Sheriff Keith V. Long, 57, whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local...
Then the cavalry arrived. Through a state official, Reporter Larry Green of the Chicago Daily News (circ. 374,000) learned of the Observer's predicament and got his own paper's approval to combine forces on the story. Green, 35, and another News reporter. Rob Warden, 36, started probing this month. Local lips unbuttoned. Says Hettinger: "The Daily News had enough clout that people opened up like Niagara Falls...
...rake each other's muck with all the verve they now expend on erring politicians. These days most papers observe an unwritten rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused the Long Beach paper of, among other things...
...weather in New Delhi was seasonably mild last week, with temperatures mostly in the 70s. If Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had had her way, however, it would have been a lot hotter in the pressroom of the Indian Express (circ. 400,000), the flagship of India's largest newspaper chain. Reason: government officials tried a few weeks ago to rip out the paper's air-conditioning system and auction it off to satisfy a disputed tax bill. Only a last-minute court injunction saved Express workers from a daily steam bath...
Foiled Again. Unlike antigovernment publishers in some other countries, Goenka, 73, and Irani, 46, cannot employ their most strategic weapons, their newspapers. The Express and the States man (circ. 198,000) are far less servile than most Indian dailies, but Gandhi's press restrictions forbid the printing of anything openly critical of her regime. As a result, Goenka and Irani have turned to India's still largely independent judiciary for help. So far, they have at least thwarted the government's apparent objective: to gain control of the papers or put them out of business...