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Executives of the two papers display little of the courteous approval that journalists typically accord competitors. News Editor William Giles, 55, calls the featurish Free Press "superficial, flighty and frilly." Lawrence says that Giles' paper, which earnestly stresses hard news, is "dull, bland and less complete than the Free Press." Giles and Lawrence live just a block away from each other in suburban Grosse Pointe Park, but as Lawrence dryly observes, "We have certainly not had the opportunity to become close friends...
...considering an overnight news offering for years, decided to hurtle ahead: in October it will launch weeknight news shows from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. E.T. Also in October, ABC will follow Nightline with a midnight-to-1-a.m. show featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue. NBC last month premiered a featurish hour of news from 1:30 to 2:30 a.m. four nights a week, and from 2 to 3 a.m. on Friday, and a morning program preceding Today, from 6:30 to 7 a.m., and using Today's personnel. ABC countered with a 6-to-7-a.m. headline news...
...Star's serendipitous rise is cheering to its editors, who are completing one of Washington's biggest rebuilding jobs since Vince Lombardi overhauled the Redskins. The paper has been thoroughly redesigned: foreign news is being given less space, and domestic stories are receiving a more featurish, consumer-directed treatment. While the Post's two top stories one day last week were the Paris economic summit and a leftist rally in Lisbon, the Star led with stories on tax abuses and the new FBI crime statistics. One of the Star's most recent innovations is a column...