Word: greenfielders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resentment reached the flash point with Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield when she "looked at the disaster area that is my desk and saw that everything on it had two or three p.r. firms' names on the letterhead." Greenfield sent a fiery memo to Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request...
Soon after, copies of Greenfield's and Bradlee's notes leaked to Washington p.r. agencies. Threatened with a loss of mystique and livelihood, the firms bombarded the Post with protests. Privately, some claimed that since the capital became a one-newspaper town with the death of the Washington Star last August, the Post has grown increasingly arrogant-and, in this case, impractical. One senior p.r. man pointed out that the Post, in its coverage of politicians and Government agencies, routinely deals with press officers and administrative aides. "Everyone in this business has to deal with intermediaries," he said...
...week's end both Bradlee and Greenfield were backing off. Bradlee said that he meant only to stress that "no one has to hire a rainmaker to see us"; he waffled when asked whether the Post really meant to refuse all interviews set up by p.r. firms. Indeed, speaking for the feature sections, Bradlee said, "We will take all calls." Greenfield insisted that she had wanted only to keep her opinion pages "Caesar's wife-ish" and open to all comers. Added she: "It was not my intention to direct this to the news side...
About 40 writers contributed to the project, including such notables as Commentator Jeff Greenfield of CBS, Novelist Cyra McFadden and Business Reporters Andrew Tobias and Chris Welles. Every story was read by a lawyer, but the editors are seeking $1 million worth of libel insurance. Thus far, there has been no protest from the chief target of the gibes, the Journal itself, perhaps because the paper is inured to annual imitation by The Bawl Street Journal, produced by the financial community's Bond Club of New York. Much fun is had with the bucket-thumping editorial-page style...
DAWN GORE, a 31-year-old Native American woman from Holyoke, Massachusetts, entered Franklin County Public Hospital in Greenfield in 1969 for an appendectomy. She woke up in the recovery room with her doctor standing at her beside. While still in an anesthetic haze, she listed as her doctor explained that he had removed her appendix. Then, she cried as she learned that her doctor had also without her consent removed her fallopian tubes because he felt she already had enough children. At the time, she was a twenty-one year old mother of three. Unable to bear the male...