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...failure to produce one truly outstanding daily. A comparison is often made with Knight-Ridder, which purchased the struggling Philadelphia Inquirer in 1969 and spent millions righting it. The Inquirer, which last week won its sixth consecutive Pulitzer, now stands comfortably in the black and high in the esteem of U.S. journalists. For some of Gannett's employees, it will take more than last week's Pulitzer to make them proud of their logos.* "Most of us feel we are too good for Gannett," grouses Joe Trento, investigative reporter for the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, which Gannett purchased...
Only three months ago, Jimmy Carter was riding high in public esteem. Largely because of crises overseas, Americans had rallied around the President, and he led Ronald Reagan in support among voters by 2 to 1. Since then, millions of Americans have changed their minds. About 60% of the electorate now think that Carter has been too soft in dealing with Iran and the Soviet Union. Public confidence in his handling of the economy has also slipped, and few voters expect his most recent economic program to be effective in curbing inflation. Now he runs neck and neck with Reagan...
...Julia's neighbors, the more sympathetic Black counterparts of Herman's mother and sister, Connie Sullivan, Valerie Graves and Kevin Porter poignantly capture the desperation of a people struggling to retain their self-esteem in the face of daily abasement. Unfortunately, Wanda Whitmore, as landlady Fanny Johnson, mugs, contorts, and overacts her way through a performance that recalls the conniving but ignorant Black stereotypes in Hollywood's old plantation films...
John B. Carman, professor of Comparative Religion and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions said yesterday, "Rogers is held in great esteem both by members of the faculty and by students." He added that he believes Rogers' departure will prove a great loss to the Harvard community...
Such a history has tended to dam age the self-esteem of TV weathercasters. Sometimes they even suspect themselves of fraud. Willard Scott has been heard to say, with an undercurrent of melancholy: "A trained gorilla could do what I do." In fact, even if some of today's forecasters are merely local station Ken dolls rolled out to mouth data gleaned from WE 6-1212, many are knowledgeable meteorologists who provide a valuable public service. Gordon Barnes of WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C., operates his own independent weather service. The best in the business is Dr. Frank Field...