Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps today's columnists lack Lippmann's talent and intellectual resources, but there is another reason why they cannot command Lippmann's prestige. This becomes evident in a reading of Ronald Steel's fine new biography, Walter Lippmann and the American Century. A columnist today couldn't carry on in the way Lippmann did, participating in all sorts of political maneuvers and policy decisions. The times demand more standoffish behavior from a columnist if he is to be trusted as an observer identified with the public's side...
Over the past year the News has imported platoons of new staffers Among them are Media Critic Ed Diamond, Boston Globe Pulitzer Prizewinner Bill Henry and the Post's red hot gossip columnist Claudia Cohen. The new News recruits are not only putting out Tonight but also preparing daily special-interest sections like those successfully pioneered in New York by the Times starting in 1976. The sections, including a "Getting Ahead" feature on Tuesdays (dealing with personal finance and career advancement) and a Friday "Sports Extra," wil" debut in September. O'Neill hopes that these innovations will help...
...editor got the columnist to talk about how these new faces in Washington differed in background and interests from their older colleagues. The more Broder talked, the more Coleman was convinced he had the makings of a book...
...completed just after Labor Day, 1979. Coleman read it and a few weeks later checked into Washington's Jefferson Hotel, where for a week of 18-hour days he and Broder went over the manuscript line by line. "His fingerprints are on every damn sentence," says the columnist with appreciation. "This book is as much Jonathan Coleman's as it is mine...
...will ambassador. After an embarrassingly vague White House statement claiming that "the President does not now recall" whether he had shown the cables to Billy, Press Secretary Jody Powell jubilantly passed around copies of the papers, which turned out to be harmless. In fact, they had been given to Columnist Jack Anderson 14 months ago in response to a suit brought under the Freedom of Information Act. Though the cables were far from secret, the episode did raise a question about the President's judgment: instead of telling Billy to have nothing to do with the Libyans, the President...