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...coverage to the public's comfort level. If the press has greater influence on election campaigns, one reason is that political parties have less clout. When smoke from cigars rather than joints polluted the political ethos, party bosses tended to vet candidates at an early stage. Executive Editor Max Frankel of the New York Times argued at a Barnard College seminar that "there is an overwhelming interest in who these characters are who are nominating themselves and coming at us so fast. The press and television are playing the filtering role that the parties used to play...
...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...
...Frankel, who served as Washington bureau chief from 1968 to 1973, points out that there have always been tensions between New York and the capital's reporters. "Creative friction is unavoidable," he says. Some Times staffers speculate that Frankel is particularly sensitive about the paper's coverage of the current scandal because he headed the bureau during the early days of Watergate, when the Post regularly beat the Times...
Since he took over last fall, Frankel has tinkered with both the look and content of the Times. He has increased the number and size of photographs. He rescinded an archaic rule that reporters could have only one byline in an issue, introduced double bylines on a single story, and allowed the word gay to be used to describe homosexuals -- a radical decision for a paper that only last year accepted...
...startling front- page correction is one sign of how Executive Editor Max Frankel is putting his stamp on the New York Times...