Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the strike-crippled Herald-Examiner as its only metropolitan competition, the chief threat facing the Los Angeles Times could be lethargy. It is fat (average daily size: 106 pages) but not exactly sassy. It carries more advertising linage than any other U.S. daily (1973 total: 117,450,860 lines); yet it gives the impression of just falling short of its great potential. Its metropolitan staff of 96 has problems making sense of its turf-4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping municipal governments that constitute a city editor's nightmare...
Such hell-for-leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy...
...Herald excels in covering Miami's rich ethnic mix: Southern WASPS, Cubans, blacks and Jews. It is particularly alert to its Cuban communities; Reporter Roberto Fabricio spent a week in Spain last year, came back with an exclusive series on some 30,000 Cuban refugees there who were having trouble getting U.S. visas. Many had relatives in Miami. It daily flies 8,000 copies into Latin America, prints eight separate inside editions for the eight areas of southern Florida where it stations news bureaus...
...other Knight dailies: the Akron Beacon-Journal, Boca Raton (Fla.) News, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer and Ledger, Detroit Free Press, Lexington (Ky.) Herald and Leader, Macon (Ga.) News and Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and the Tallahassee Democrat...
PERHAPS THE MOST ODIOUS effect of pack journalism, though, is the "winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...