Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent swipe at the presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Boston Herald this week revealed that six temporary shelters for the homeless, including Harvard's University Lutheran Shelter, would close due to a state-level "fund feud...
...Herald's March 10 edition declared across the front page, "Fund feud may close homelss shelters." The article accompanying the headline blamed the "budget worries of the Dukakis administration" for the closing of the winter shelters and bemoaned the loss of 450 beds at a time when Boston is swamped with homeless people. However, the article did not describe the "fund feud" referred to in the headline...
...next day, the Herald printed an apology by the story's author, Phil Primack, saying the previous day's report had been incomplete and that "it is simply untrue that there's any connection between state budget pressures and the end of funding for shelters always intended to be temporary...
...Front Page, argue that the press does matter; the first for the good it can do, the second for the harm. What caused the change in attitude? In his valedictory speech last year as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Creed Black, publisher of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, lamented: "We are blamed for the sins and shortcomings of what television, which is basically an entertainment medium, calls news...
While flying to Houston on the afternoon of the New Hampshire primary, Al Gore phoned his campaign manager, Fred Martin, and got word that Paul Simon seemed to be capturing the second spot, behind Michael Dukakis. The Tennessee Senator could not suppress a smile: Super Tuesday might in fact herald the "new ball game" he had been predicting. But Gore wasn't smiling when he talked to Martin later. Richard Gephardt was scoring a solid second, undermining Gore's risky gambit of skirting the early contests. Instead of facing two liberal Yankees on Super Tuesday, Gore must now jump-start...