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...Barry's voice is as sweet as her Boston accent is heavy. And when her phone rings, it's never good news. Amy puts together the Obituary page for The Boston Herald...
Only 16 months earlier, we had replaced our existing Australian edition with TIME AUSTRALIA, a joint venture between Time Inc. and John Fairfax & Sons, one of that country's leading publishers (the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age in Melbourne). Since then the venture's ten-member, Melbourne-based editorial staff has combined TIME's weekly coverage of world events with added stories about Australian politics, business, social issues and culture. Assessing our progress, Hawke said, "This is already TIME with an Australian accent...
That is exactly the response proposed by the Miami Herald's Tom Fiedler, who was the lead reporter in the stakeout that broke the Gary Hart-Donna Rice story. Last week Fiedler wrote in a column that the "character issue" was now being carried to "absurd" lengths. David Broder of the Washington Post, the paper that delivered the final blow to Hart, also fretted. "It's time to slow down and take another look at what we're doing," Broder wrote, "before more damage is done...
...with Congress and the special-prosecutor system, is "caught up in a vast game of 'gotcha!' " he says. "It's how reputations are made." Few journalists like to admit to the dark side of competitive spirit, but it is there. The Register's Gannon observes, "When you see the Herald 'score' on Hart and then a couple of others on Biden, there's a certain amount of feeling along the line of 'I want my big story...
Overkill is as unavailing as timidity. The 1987 booby prize in the proportion category goes to the Boston Herald. In covering Dukakis' belated admission that his aides had leaked the anti-Biden tapes, the tabloid devoted 18 articles to the subject, consuming all the news space in the first eleven pages of its Oct. 1 edition. With that degree of excess in the system, the groping toward common sense discerned by Stephen Hess clearly...