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James Brady, who broke the story in his New York magazine gossip column, reported that Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger had been pressured by relatives to acquire some Republican counterweight. As Brady told it, Sulzberger's cousin, Editorial Page Editor John B. Oakes, was angry over the top-level interference (Oakes denied it). The principals would not comment on the report that Safire would be making $55,000 a year-a lot of honey for a cub columnist. Quips Safire: "I'm going from one organization to another, and both are equally leaky...
...newsworthy event, we had a duty to try to verify whether or not the rumors that were circulating about the circumstances of his withdrawal were true. If we had investigated the rumors, found them to be untrue, and reported this, we would have been praised for ending malicious gossip. As it was, the rumors were true, and many are now damning us for reporting what we found...
...Magenta set its sights high; it would attempt fairness, accuracy, and encyclopedic coverage; it would avoid gossip, falsehood, and error: in short, it would try to please all of the people all of the time, or as the editors put it in their first editorial...
Concerning news it is hard to say enough and not too much. The rights of the gossip must be held sacred, and it is unnecessary to trespass upon the domain of the childish. There is still room, however, to tell many things that should secure us the patronage of students and graduates...
Concerning news it is hard to say enough and not too much. The rights of the gossip must be held sacred, and it is unnecessary to trespass upon the domain of the childish. There is still room, however, to tell many things that should secure us the patronage of students and graduates. We cannot hope to excel the Advocate in our treatment of sporting matters; to equal it in this, and to supply a long-felt deficiency in other respects, are chief objects with...