Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After lamenting the lack of openings for young reporters at The Times, Rosenthal said that he personally interviews all new employees. So what kind of people does Rosenthal hire? "I wouldn't hire the greatest writer on earth if I wasn't satisfied as to his character," Rosenthal told the Fellows. To Rosenthal, character means people who are "straight" (honest) and who "will devote their lives...
...RECENT SUNDAY afternoon about 150 students gathered in Harvard Yard to express their support for affirmative action and its attendant quota systems. During the course of the rally one dissenter stood alone. Howard Jonahs '78 held a sign proclaiming "Affirmative Action is Unjust" on one side and "Hire on Merit" on the other. Although Jonahs says he received threats and taunts from members of the crowd, he surely represented a much larger segment of the Harvard community than was apparent that day. Even more important, Howard Jonahs was right...
...associate freely, however, the government is not justified in enforcing the merit criterion any more than it is justified in enforcing quotas. In a free society people should have the right to voluntarily establish private institutions run on any basis they may choose, as well as the right to hire whom they want, the right to form schools of whatever composition they desire, and the right to offer their productive services as widely or selectively as they wish. An opinion has already been expressed here concerning the principle on which they should base these associations, but if individuals have...
...Regarding the Barbara Walters situation, there was a recent quote from Fred Friendly to the effect that he had nothing against Walters, but that ABC should use the money to hire more reporters, that he thought it was a ridiculous expenditure, that essentially no one was worth that amount of money...
...They needed somebody who had tremendously more experience. They needed a publisher," Gauld said. But she said the magazine had no money to hire a publisher...