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This is not just the view of an extremist. Scholars such as Ellen Frankel Paul, deputy director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, argue that the courts are a dangerous mechanism for policing behavior. "Do we really want legislators and judges delving into our most intimate private lives," she asks, "deciding when a look is a leer and when a leer is a civil rights offense? Should people have a legally enforceable right not to be offended by others? At some point, the price for such protection is the loss of both...
Finally, the newspaper itself published an extraordinary article last Friday about the controversy. The piece quotes executive editor Max Frankel as saying, "This is a crisis, because many people feel the Times betrayed its standards." In a separate editor's note, the Times also said it "regrets" that its original article might have given the impression that the newspaper challenged the woman's account of her ordeal...
...paper's stumbles appear to be the result of tension between its reputation for prudence and cautious news judgment and its recent attempts to develop a more with-it image. Since he took charge in 1986, Frankel has tried to liven up the 140-year-old paper with more flavorful writing and beefed-up coverage of sports and city news. But the Times has also been giving more prominent play to softer features, such as a piece last week on how celebrities are dealing with a local strike of apartment-building doormen...
...blue-collar tabloid readers; they are of little interest anyway to the kind of upscale advertisers the paper attracts. Instead, it is straining to keep up with the evolving taste of younger readers, who have come of age expecting a lighter, more gossipy style of journalism. This year Frankel hired consulting editor Adam Moss, the former managing editor of Seven Days, a defunct New York weekly that was popular among the yuppie Manhattanites whom the Times must hold as readers. The hope is that Moss -- "He's not a news person," grumbles a staff member -- will enliven the paper...
...Frankel's strategy is driven partly by a fear of red ink. While the paper's readership numbers remain healthy -- the 1.2 million daily circulation is up 5% over last year -- advertising is down, as it is generally throughout the newspaper industry. The New York Times Co. newspaper group reported a 52% drop in profits, to $18.6 million, for the first quarter of this year. The Times is also keeping an eye on six-year-old New York Newsday, which is trying to fashion a niche in Manhattan as a thinking person's tabloid. If Newsday can outlast the other...