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Mervin Aubespin, 45, was in the city room late one night at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he has been a reporter for more than a decade, when an editor dropped by with an unusual request. The editor wanted Aubespin, who is black, to telephone a source on a story he had been covering since its inception, then hand the source over to a white reporter who would conduct an interview. Says the normally restrained Aubespin: "The assumption was made, purposely or not, that I was not able to ask the right questions. I got real evil...
Aubespin does not regard his employers as being fundamentally racist. Indeed, he says, "top management has made a commitment to bring blacks into the mainstream." Blacks hold 19 of 234 editorial staff jobs at the Courier-Journal and its sister daily, the afternoon Louisville Times; the minority representation of 8.5% at the two papers (including one Hispanic) compares favorably with a national newsroom average of 5.5%. But as Aubespin's story illustrates, even after minority journalists get hired, they face enduring problems in trying to win the professional trust of their colleagues...
...Woodward in All the President's Men, with one noteworthy exception; Haig's "character" fits that of Deep Throat; and Haig probably, though not certainly, met the Post reporter before Watergate. That would have happened in 1969 when Woodward was in the Navy serving as a courier between the Pentagon and the White House...
When Susan Traherne (Kate Nelligan) was 17, she served as a courier with the French Resistance. It struck a harmonic chord of valor that haunts her during the rest of her frustrating life. In flashbacks and flashforwards, Plenty ranges from World War II through the '50s and '60s. Back in London, Susan blurs into the social canvas, drifting in and out of jobs, romances, causes, too self-indulgent and too undisciplined to harness her energies to her high self-expectations...
...medium-size dailies in the U.S. The afternoon Star, which had undergone a steady circulation slide to 170,000, was folded into its matutinal sister, the Tribune (circ. 240,000). The merger cost 110 jobs, including 50 from the editorial staffs. Last month Cowles closed the Buffalo Courier-Express, the morning paper it had owned since 1979, after losing $25 million on its operation...