Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minds for the Guardian Angels, a para-military youth safety organization. Citizens there and in many other big cities are justifiably frightened to travel at night because the police can no longer provide anything approximating a safe ride. But in our alarm over urban disorder, we should not herald the Angels as saviors without taking a closer look at the nature of the group...
Implicit in all such observations is the idea that the lawyer is seeking only someone fair and open-minded, while his antagonist yearns to find bigots and idiots. "It's really foolishness for lawyers to tell jurors that they want them to be impartial," says New York Attorney Herald Price Fahringer. "We all do it, and it's a lie. I don't want an impartial jury. I want a jury that is compatible to my client's cause...
Translation: the Hearst-owned daily had run out of options. The Herald American was formed in 1972 when Hearst's racy Boston tabloid, the Record American, absorbed the city's staid, 125-year-old blue-blood bible, the Herald Traveler. The new paper never caught on. Combining the mismatched styles of the papers it subsumed, the Herald American alienated former readers of both by, for example, running weighty political analysis side by side with reports of steamy sex crimes. Circulation, at first 371,664, fell steadily; losses are now estimated to be $10 million a year. The Globe...
None of these examples was lost on the Herald American's managers, who reportedly considered the tabloid option for a year before choosing it. If the Globe, one of the nation's best newspapers, can thrive by providing first-rate coverage, the Herald American hopes to prove there is a down-scale market for something less serious and more entertaining. Predicts Dorris: "We're going to produce a paper that is a pleasure to read, not a chore." Adds Editor Donald Forst: "The new Herald American is going to be a reader's paper, with...
Others were not so sure. Said Frank McCulloch, executive editor of McClatchy Newspapers: "Dominance, once achieved, is very hard to overcome. The Globe is so dominant, it does not make much difference what the Herald does." Worse, Boston's new tabloid may not have very long to make the formula work. Last, week the Boston Globe reported that Herald Advertising Director Robert Lange told the paper's advertisers in July that the Hearst Corp. will give the paper just 3½ months to prove it can make it; otherwise it will be shut down. That report was followed...