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...Office had said nothing to the city desk about what it had said to each of the dozen or so reporters it had hired in the hiring binge I was a part of. The Publisher's Office had spoken to us in terms of admirable new developments in the Herald Traveler's news that we would be undertaking in an effort to revitalize the paper. The editors, however, had asked only for additional hands to help the badly understaffed city staff. There wasn't too much communication between the Publisher's Office and the news editors and reporters. In fact...
...news editorial staff, however, tried valiantly and gallantly to put out a good, good newspaper. The ideas they had were sound and the Herald's editors were remarkably free of the illusions and delusions about their profession which mark some of their colleagues. "Good newspapering" was the goal and that meant an accurate, entertaining, well laid-out edition written for its readers--not for other newspapermen or for the reporters' sources. Charlie Ball, the imaginative City Editor, once tried to have the comma keys removed from the office typewriters when a tendency appeared among reporters to describe through strings...
...collection apparatus had a lead on it that probably would have turned James Q. Wilson's head. McCarthy said it turned his stomach. He went into a long speech about writing for the man who reads the paper. It was not unlike the speech Jimmy Breslin (another Herald Traveler alumnus) gave to the A.J. Leibling Counter-Convention of reporters in New York a few weeks...
Though they never would have admitted it (but perhaps they should have, while there was still time), the Herald's editors and reporters tried hard to help their readers feel they were part of a community, not atomized bits. That's why the Herald loved to run long stories about the previous week's weather--it was something everyone shared and reacted to. "There's more to newspapering," Ralph Long, the news and makeup editor, once told me, "than reporting controversies between politicians". There are worse things a newspaper could do that to encourage a city's metaxu...
...that the Record-American is taking over the Herald's plant at 300 Harrison Avenue, I suppose they'll ask the city government to change the names of the streets--Herald Street and Traveler Street--that abut the plant. I hope they do not erase these two tiny monuments to failure, and if they do I hope someone will say for us all. "HUB SCORNS NAME CHANGE, LAUDS FOND MEMORY...