Word: liven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine experience, Felker is no stranger to New York newspapering. Before the old World Journal Tribune died in 1967, leaving the afternoon field to the Post, he was hired to help liven up the paper. Felker bridles at suggestions that he took the Tonight job so he could "zap Murdoch." He says he just wants to put out a solid afternoon paper "for people who have been in a news vacuum...
...something to criticize. Today the White House says, "Recent events have shown us that more dramatic efforts are in order. We need to show our determination to check Soviet aggression." The military requirements of defending American interests haven't changed much since then, but Carter feels a need to liven up the foreign policy drama he's writing...