Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Respectable American papers scorn the sleazy Fleet Street practice of entrapping prominent Brits in love nests. So when the respectable Miami Herald tailed Hart and his friend, it angered Columnist A.M. Rosenthal, until recently the top editor of the New York Times. He indignantly wrote, "I did not become a newspaperman to hide outside a politician's house trying to find out whether he was in bed with somebody." When it comes to scandal, the New York Times is up above the world so high. Its readers must have been puzzled to read that Hart's reputation as a womanizer...
...Miami Herald in such a hurry that it could not even wait to check its facts properly? And what right did Reporter Paul Taylor of the Washington Post have to ask Hart at that televised press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" To such a question, said Columnist William Safire, the proper answer is "Go to hell." Ben Bradlee, the Post's executive editor, did not quite condemn his reporter's intrusive question but lamely put it back on Hart: "I can't think of anyone else...
Cabey has told a newspaper columnist the four were about to rob Goetz because he "looked like easy bait...
...multipart series that takes on a big subject, pursues it with crusading zeal and seems to run on forever. Such journalistic tomes frequently seem created as much to please award judges as to satisfy readers. "We're thinking about putting the following helpful advisory over them," syndicated Humor Columnist Dave Barry wrote this month. "'Caution! Journalism Prize Entry! Do Not Read...
...space shuttle Challenger disaster and another for reporting by Alex S. Jones on the breakup of the Bingham family's Louisville newspaper empire. The / Los Angeles Times also took two prizes: for Michael Parks' reports from South Africa and Richard Eder's book criticism. Charles Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist and TIME essayist, won the commentary award for his newspaper columns, and Berke Breathed, creator of the Bloom County comic strip, got the nod for editorial cartooning...