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Perhaps the Times's most blatant admission of its support for the city's large real-estate moguls was its recent canning of columnist Sydney Schanberg. Schanberg's column, called "New York," was a beat he clearly decided to cover thoroughly. Realizing that the New York of Broadway theatres, Times Square redevelopment (read gentrification) and egocentric mayors was being prominently displayed on the front page, Schanberg set out to cover a different New York...
...President, I'm sure Mr. Zucker is very busy. But, a good sports columnist should never be too busy to look at the stats. To sum up my thoughts: Zucker is an able writer but his column and his research have been atrocious in spots. Robert Steinberg Punter, Placekicker, Harvard Football Team
...most are), editors feel an obligation to represent all elements in the community. The largest newspaper chain, Gannett, lets its 86 dailies be Republican or Democratic as they please. Gannett calls this local autonomy, though it could also be described as commercial opportunism. Gannett editors choose their own columnists but are advised to seek an ideological balance. That spectrum attitude somewhat diminishes the columnist, who is seen to be not so much speaking for himself as reflecting a point of view. It's like the phony balance of man-in-the-street interviews on TV, characterized scornfully by ABC News...
...syndicated columnist, public relations executive and Jacqueline Kennedy's onetime White House social secretary, Baldrige, 58, has a solution for almost every imaginable corporate conundrum. Trying to make a smooth sales pitch in Peking? Do not wear white, the Chinese symbol of mourning. Stuck at a monotonous meeting? Do not doodle, and refrain from "conference table tics, such as bending paper clips into endless combinations or rolling bits of paper into tiny balls," Baldrige advises. Preparing a menu for the office Christmas party? Keep it simple and "save the snakemeat canapes and the blanquette of hare for your personal parties...
Readers of dozens of newspapers in the U.S. and elsewhere may have been puzzled last week at the premiere appearance of a new syndicated columnist: Pope John Paul II. Rome was not amused. A spokesman for the Vatican press office, Monsignor Giulio Nicolini, denounced the so-called column, which in fact was a hodgepodge of writings by John Paul on apartheid and other topics, as "inadmissible." No one, stated Nicolini, could claim exclusive, commercial rights to selections from John Paul's pronouncements. - The column was to be the first in a series of John Paul's statements compiled by Alfred...