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Stories like these end up hurting the Herald's accurate reporting. One Sunday night in early October, the Herald got the story of the departure of Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. DiGrazia to Rockville, Maryland, and quickly made it the lead story in their Monday paper. When the early edition hit the streets around 11 p.m., the reaction was skeptical: "Remember the Yale story, just wait to see what the Globe has," said most local editors. At the Globe, however, editors decided to keep the DiGrazia story out of the first editions--thereby not allowing the Herald enough time...
STILL THERE are problems with the Herald's news gathering forces. The paper is a member of the Associated Press and United Press International and subscribes to The New York Times News Service, so its national and international coverage is often equal to the Globe's. But in the past, the Herald has shown a reluctance to spend money covering local news, having few local political writers, most of whom seem to get their news from press releases put out by elected officials. During Boston's turmoil over busing to achieve school integration, the Herald put two reporters on education...
Although its local coverage is considerably better, especially on events at the State House, the Herald is still vulnerable to charges of sensationalism. In its first revamped Sunday edition, the Herald's lead headline read: "15 State Firms May Move Out If Flat Rate Voted." Until then, the Herald's stories about the various state referenda questions had been superficially balanced, but the scare headline destroyed that. The story was based on a prediction from a vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, who declined to name the firms he said told him they would leave the state...
...When the Herald switched typefaces and changed its name on Sundays from the Sunday Herald Advertiser to simply the Herald American, it also added a new Sunday magazine section called "Beacon." Its first cover story suggested that Beacon would be governed by the same sort of news judgment that graces the Herald's front page. Entitled "The Girl Next Door is a Stripper," the article details the lifestyle of a woman who lives in North Shore suburban Beverly and works at the Two O'Clock Lounge in Boston's combat zone. Surprisingly--after its play on the cover--the article...
...supposedly all-new Herald American really isn't new at all, at least not yet. Bergenheim and others at the Herald promise more revisions in the paper, and more new writers. In the same issue that endorsed President Ford for re-election, the Herald announced that it had hired Mary Perot Nichols, formerly of The Village Voice. As of yesterday, Nichols was to begin work on a series called "The Power Brokers of Boston...