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...still handles the details of mailing and bookkeeping himself, avoiding the standard 50% syndication fee. This regimen nets him "a nice middle income," he says, "but not posh." It also nets him the respect of other journalists. "He fills a tremendous gap," says Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Philip Geyelin. "He tells us what problems look like from the other end of the telescope." Adds Phyllis Lamphere, president of the National League of Cities: "He is the link between the preoccupied Washington press and the local reporting done in states...
...editorial pages are where the differences between the two papers are most marked. In the hands of Philip Geyelin and Meg Greenfield, the Post has the best editorial page in the country. It achieves an urbanity of tone, reasoning conversationally with lawmakers and officials, and frequently surprises with unexpected insight. A bright, idiomatic tone has crept into the Times editorial page since Max Frankel became its editor on Jan. 1. He seems determined to modulate that Ugh, Big Chief Has Spoken voice of the Times...
...journalists are as critical, recognizing that governments cannot operate without some privacy. The Washington Post, no laggard at uncovering government secrets, expressed mild support for the Ford proposal in an editorial. Said Post Editorial Page Editor Philip Geyelin: "It's not all that chilling. Governments are continually trying to keep people in line, and we keep trying to break through that...
...news-department staff of 379 is still smaller by almost 300 than the Times's, but it has a we-try-harder zeal. In one important respect the Post is clearly superior to the New York Times: its nine editorial writers, led by Editor Philip L. Geyelin and Deputy Meg Greenfield, produce wise, reasoned, dispassionate commentary. The paper's political staff, under Pulitzer- prizewinning Columnist David Broder, is perhaps the most knowledgeable in the country...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE WORLD, by Philip L. Geyelin. A perceptive, sometimes tartly irreverent account of how L.B.J. has fared in foreign affairs, by the Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent...