Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversial editorial about Somerville Mayor Thomas F. August in last Thursday's edition of the Somerville Journal may have led supporters of the mayor to buy out the newspapers at local newstands before yesterday's mayoral elections...
...editorial in the Journal, by Somerville Journal editor Barbara Powers, opposed August's re-election for a second two-year term in favor of any one of the other three candidates. The editorial charges August with poor management of city finances, excessive taxation, and inability or unwillingness to communicate with his constituents...
...Somerville Journal hit the stands late last Thursday. Fran Conti of Warner's Cable Channel 13 news department said yesterday people across the city bought copies of the paper in bulk quantity late that evening. Several news dealers ran out of papers, and the publishers of the Journal printed and distributed 6000 more copies on Friday...
William P. Dole, publisher of the Somerville Journal, said yesterday he never charged that members of August's campaign organization bought the paper in bulk to keep it off the stands before Tuesday's election. But he added August has since admitted the deed...
Dole said that the issues in the Journal's editorial are old, and that August has consistently refused offers to comment on them in the past...