Word: curleyism
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Just across the street from the Clayground pottery store and right next door to Winsor Tap's Hot Lunches and Liquors, Jeffrey Curley's home was in the midst of a classic Cambridge neighborhood...
...announced with a phone call or sudden message, one that will change your life forever, "the feeling," Bill Cosby described in 1987, "of your child going out to play, going to the store, going to visit Grandma or Uncle, and not coming back home." On Thursday morning, Joanne Curley-Kerner, line producer for Cosby's cbs sitcom, received disturbing calls from tabloid-TV reporters seeking to verify rumors out of Los Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d. but couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening...
While the paper's quality has improved dramatically over the years, with recent investigative reports on air bags, for instance--as its publisher, Thomas Curley, puts it, "we've had breadth; now we're trying to add depth"--USA Today is also seen as a bad influence on many big-city newsrooms. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for example, now bans front-page stories that jump to another page, which means major news events must be covered in a paltry 150 words or so. Many papers have shifted to civic, or public, journalism, an increasingly popular but controversial editorial policy...
...their brand name. USA Today, for instance, is what Kovach calls a great "second read" for the business traveler and for the many Americans displaced from their hometowns. "If you have moved from Dallas to Washington, you can't read about the Dallas Cowboys in the Washington Post," says Curley, "but you can get some of it in USA Today...
...Kerry can sometimes sound like a scold, Weld always seems on the verge of poking fun. When he moved into the statehouse, Weld replaced Dukakis' portrait of Revolutionary hero Samuel Adams with one of James Michael Curley, the notoriously corrupt Boston mayor who once campaigned from prison. This summer the Governor pulled what an aide called a "pure Weld" when, after the signing of an environmental bill, he leaped fully clothed into the Charles River...