Word: circe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mystique of influence surrounding Daily Variety (circ. 19,650) and the Hollywood Reporter (circ. 15,551) is all the more impressive given their small readership and narrow focus (Variety covered the war in Lebanon by noting how it had affected the box office at Beirut movie theaters). Moreover, both publications can be fooled into announcing projects that have neither financing, script nor star, nor reasonable likelihood of ever getting them. Admits respected Variety Reporter James Harwood: "We have printed hundreds of titles that were never made." No one seems to mind. Explains Producer Albert Ruddy (The Godfather, The Cannonball...
Meanwhile, the verdict puts new pressure on journalists to play it safe. In the past two years, multimillion-dollar libel verdicts have been returned against the National Enquirer, Penthouse and the tiny (circ. 37,557) Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, which had to file for bankruptcy protection while it negotiated a settlement of the $9.2 million award against it. For such small press enterprises in particular, even the legal fees involved can be destructive. The Tavoulareases so far have spent $2 million on lawyers to fight the case, and the Post's defense has cost $1 million. Bills on such...
...forces. Three days after the show was aired, General Westmoreland angrily denied the allegations. Other disavowals followed, including claims by senior advisers to President Lyndon Johnson that they had been well aware of debate among military and intelligence officers about the strength of the enemy. In May, TV Guide (circ. 17.7 million) published its own expose, titled "Anatomy of a Smear...
...state's other big-circulation newspapers are in Jacksonville: the Florida Times Union and Jacksonville Journal (combined circ. 199,000), owned by the Seaboard Coast Line railroad, now CSX Corp. The papers once avoided any mention of, say, a sports team flying rather than taking a train. Cracks one Florida editor: "They used to print stories about cars running over trains." Nowadays the paper hires tougher reporters and is making a creditable effort at improvement...
Nipping at the heels of the big papers is a pack of smaller dailies and even a few weeklies that compete editorially. Probably the most respected is the Fort Myers News-Press (circ. 61,000). "We don't have the resources of the Herald or the Times," says News-Press Executive Editor Ron Thornburg, "but we can make little guerrilla raids." The News-Press and the slightly larger but less ambitious Cocoa Today are owned by the giant Gannett chain. The Lakeland Ledger (circ. 50,000) has probably surpassed the Gainesville Sun (circ. 42,000) as editorial leader...