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Charles A. Janeway, a professor of immunobiology at Yale University, acclaimed the researchers' efforts in an interview yesterday...
Some media observers see the current press bashing as the culmination of long-simmering public discontent. "In Vietnam, people were ready to take the truth -- that the war effort was failing -- but they didn't take it happily," says Michael Janeway, dean of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. "The press lived through a kind of subterranean punishment for bringing that news. Now the tension is reasserting itself." Argued conservative critic Dorothy Rabinowitz last week in a Wall Street Journal article: "The bill, it seems, has come in for the past 20 years," during which time, she claims, the press...
...Janeway's personal style proved awkward. Meeting with the paper's sports staff shortly after taking over, Janeway said that while he was not a fan in sports-mad Boston, his wife followed the city's teams and she thought the paper's coverage of them superb. The sportswriters were ruffled by the backhanded compliment. Though Janeway assiduously courted colleagues over lunch, he remained somewhat aloof back in his corner office...
When Managing Editor Matthew Storin quit last summer after a squabble with Janeway, the editor grew even more reliant on Driscoll. Janeway tried to ingratiate himself by running minor details of the newspaper's operations past his deputy, but that only made Janeway seem indecisive. Tensions rose over Janeway's strong interest in national and foreign news and the equally strong desire of Driscoll to play up local stories. Though the Globe covered Boston as thoroughly under Janeway as it had under Winship, the perception grew in the newsroom that the paper's editor preferred reading about the French elections...
Driscoll told Publisher Taylor in January that he wanted to quit, but Taylor implored him to stay. Aware of Driscoll's unhappiness, Janeway created two new deputy managing editor spots to ease his colleague's work load. Driscoll, however, saw the move as an attempt to curtail his responsibility. Two weeks ago, Driscoll repeated to Taylor his plans to leave. The publisher, convinced that Driscoll was more indispensable to the Globe than was Janeway, spent a restless four days deciding what to do. By St. Patrick's Day, Taylor's mind was made...