Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest in his opinions-or, if you prefer, so content to shirk his editorial responsibility. John S. Knight, 83, has exercised self-restraint in inflicting his decided views on the 34-paper Knight-Ridder chain, which includes such fine dailies as the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. Knight, an Eisenhower conservative and friend of Nixon's, lost a son in World War II. From Dien Bien Phu on, he warned against American involvement in Southeast Asia, and when the U.S. did get involved, he continued to oppose the war in the "Editor...
...local editorial autonomy results in political schizophrenia-some papers Republican, others Democratic-which the chains all defend as wholesome diversity rather than cynical moneymaking indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic...
DURING HIS PHENOMENAL rookie year in 1976, Mark Fidrych shied away from the self-congratulatory stardom of major league baseball. When asked about his pitching with the Detroit Tigers, he would smile and say, "It's no big deal." When agents urged him to cash in on his success financially, he would answer, exuberantly, "I play baseball." And the fans loved him, they had never seen anything like him. Tall, gawky, like a stork out of water, Fidrych stepped on the field with a flurry of limbs, hair and mutterings. Not since Dizzy Dean bamboozled his way into the national...
Well don't feel too bad about it, I do it too. So do a lot of people, including, most of the time, George Plimpton, the participatory sports journalist par excellence who quarterbacked the Detroit Lions in an exhibition game and pitched against baseball's American and National League All-Stars...