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Your article about my confirmation hearings, "Requiem for a 'Do-Gooder' " [June 15], touches briefly on the real issue, which was ideological. You then drop the subject and pick up the gossip. The point in question was President Carter's use of a rubber yardstick, which emphasized the human rights abuses by our friends more than the abuses by our adversaries...
Tonight was plagued by a lack of editorial coordination. Coverage was too frequently duplicated (five entertainment editors, seven gossip writers). Many veteran staffers resented the Felker recruits, contemptuously labeled "boutique journalists" by Bareknuckle Columnist Jimmy Breslin. Bad planning and production problems turned the revamped multisection paper into an incomprehensible jumble; it became a challenge just to find the old pictorial centerfold, and a near impossibility to locate the TV listings...
...sooner was Marcos left conspicuously alone at the starting gate than the breakfast clubs and coffee shops, where Filipino politicians, reporters and businessmen regularly trade information and gossip, were swept with rumors that the President's backers were dangling big money in front of potential candidates so that somebody would run against him. Assemblyman Reuben Canoy told TIME that a supporter of Marcos' had offered the equivalent of $1.3 million to Canoy if he would challenge the President. Canoy turned the opportunity down. A longtime Marcos ally eventually surfaced as a candidate: Alejo Santos, 69, the fourth choice...
...Father Guido Sarducci, the fictional rock critic and gossip columnist for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the trip to Rome should have been something of a pilgrimage. But for Actor Don Novello, 38, who created Sarducci and often played him on TV's Saturday Night Live, the visit was less than heavenly. Decked out in priestly threads for a photo story for Attenzione, a magazine for Italian Americans published in New York City, Novello ventured past the Vatican walls for a shot outside L 'Osservatore 's offices. Swiss Guards soon collared the comic cleric...
...Reporter Haynes Johnson, "entertainment and gossip intrude into the news process, and sometimes overwhelm it." He deplores the way "the mystique of 'investigative reporting' and its cloak of anonymous sources is becoming a license for distortion." Along with many other reporters and editors, he condemns flashy New Journalists who are "eroding public trust in the reliability of reporting" by use of fictional "composites," which they defend as "a way to a greater truth...