Word: felkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larsen, 36, a former TIME associate editor, joined the magazine more than a year after it was founded by George A. Hirsch, 41, who had quit as publisher of New York magazine in a dispute with Editor Clay Felker. Hirsch assembled a staff of contributors that read like a Who's Who of liberal and "new" journalism: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, Dick Schaap and other print celebrities. That was a mistake. When they found the time to produce, the results were too often lightly researched, ill-organized and self-indulgent...
...Voice, their agreement-and its confidentiality-ceased. Schorr, on the other hand, accused the committee of blowing his cover-"I am fully aware," he said, "of the irony of my complaining about leaks"-and insisted that the committee had been involved in the negotiations with Voice Publisher Clay Felker...
...Baloney," said Robert Maynard, a trustee of the committee and a Washington Post editorial writer. "He's trying to make us a partner in his calumny." Another trustee, Jack Landon, backed up Maynard. In the meantime, it remained unclear whether or not Felker had actually promised to make a contribution either to Schorr or the committee...
...early as last November, reporters heard rumors that Brill was out to do a hatchet job on Jimmy Carter. Brill maintains, "I expected it to be a positive piece, but it didn't turn out that way." Says Clay Felker, editor of New York magazine, where Brill is a contributing editor: "He's a fantastic reporter, a trained lawyer who is not afraid to look at documents for the facts." A Washington-based political correspondent has another opinion. "Brill is a hit man," he says with concern. "He's the liberal enforcer...
Nevertheless, she still devours books on business subjects and seeks the counsel of such friends as Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler and Clay Felker, editor of New York magazine. Says Felker: "The Gannett chain may make more money, but they don't have her concern for quality." Graham has maintained the quality by preserving generous editorial budgets, but she wants to raise the company's profit margin from last year...