Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times editors insist that they did not set out to do an exposé of the Long Beach paper. They dispatched Reporters George Reasons and Mike Goodman to the city six months ago, they claim, solely to investigate a rash of municipal scandals and fiscal problems. "The situation we found was a surprise to all of us," says Times Editor William Thomas. "But [the paper] was a natural focus, so we wrote it that way. I can say that I have never seen a story quite like this...
Neither had the Independent, Press-Telegram, which cried foul with its own Page One story and an editorial the next day. "A bunch of innuendoes," snapped Daniel H. Ridder, editor and publisher of the Long Beach paper (circ. 149,000). Since Ridder's family merged its 19 newspapers into the 16-paper Knight chain last year, the Long Beach daily has lowered its profile in local civic affairs; thus, many of the Times allegations are outdated. But Ridder defends even the previous heavy involvement. Says he: "The newspaper ought to be involved in promoting the community and serving...
Whatever the motivation, the Times's allegations struck some sympathetic chords. Mary Ellis Carlton, veteran urban-affairs reporter for the I. PT, agreed that the paper has suppressed many of her reports about city problems; last week she resigned. Some editors at other California papers found the whole affair at least as interesting as dog bites dog, if not man bites dog. Said Sacramento Bee (and former Los Angeles Times) Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "It's the first indication that we're going to break out of the gentlemen's club and rap each other...
...Editor says the movie is too long. He says we could save 20 minutes by cutting out most of Cornelia's nude scenes. He also says we should dub her voice. Cornelia would never go for that...
When a New Yorker editor makes White's "fresh" into "afresh," the author fumes: "My characters will hence forth go afishing, and they will read Afield & Astream. Some of them, perhaps all of them, will be asexual...