Word: edition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months later, the once mighty News is staggering. News Editor Michael O'Neill announced last week that Felker will no longer edit Tonight, because he wants to pursue "outside interests." Felker's shift to consultant status was greeted with relief by some in the newsroom; they had feared that Chicago's Tribune Co., owner of the Daily News, was preparing to shut down Tonight-or even sell the News. The Hearst Corp. reportedly has turned down an opportunity to buy the News, though spokesmen for both companies deny it. In any case, O'Neill...
...anyone who submits a publishable note to the journal has become an editor. "There's a good deal of concern among officers and members about getting women and minorities to write notes," says editor-in-chief John Campbell. Current editors work with students to give them advice and edit their notes. Of Harvard's system, Campbell says. "They put themselves in a difficult position when they select on the basis of grades. I don't see grades as a proxy for good editorial skills...
...limited talent, $35 million worth of hubris. When the film opened in New York last November it received universally poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from N.Y. theaters after only one week. Cimino promised to re-edit the film from its 225 minutes to a more conventional length of 2 1/2 hours. Unprecedented humiliation in Movieland...
...that goes beyond the daily newspapers or the T.V. Guide's promo columns. That started happening as television became more sophisticated or, at least, more technologically sophisticated. Once t.v. evolved into something beyond the simple transmission of stage plays--when video, mini-cams, and that all-important ability to edit came into the scene--the force of the medium creeped into the national consciousness. With books like Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, people began suspecting that television had some extraordinary power. Then came the Vietnam broadcasts, the moon shots, the Olympics. Television began validating an awful...
...deal with such criticism is to edit the King James, clipping some oddities of language and correcting notable errors. Several Protestant editions attempt just that...