Word: markel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Room with Bath. City Editor Joseph, who probably does less editing than any city editor in the business, has no need for one of the swank new suites. They are reserved for Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Manager Julius Ochs Adler, Editor Charles Merz, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick and Managing Editor James, in case they are stuck at the paper all night. Joseph takes his leave of his morning-paper staff by 6 p.m. He and his assistants assign the Times's 150 reporters to stories, but the editing is done by copyreaders...
...line "between good-grey press and yellow or purple press," said Markel, divides editors who stress important news from those who stress interesting news. Once in 1922, he recalled, he had asked the late Publisher Adolph S. Ochs: "How does it happen that the Times, which publishes only the news that's fit to print, carries columns upon columns of the Hall-Mills [lovers' lane murder] story...
...Well, Mr. Markel," said Ochs, "if a tabloid prints it, it is smut; if the Times prints it, it is sociology...
Blab Brothers. Editor Markel then went after the panderers to "national ignorance and apathy"-the "radio rattlers," "newspaper know-it-alls," "sob sisters" and "blab brothers." Said he: "There is a great gullibility . . . about a prevalent radio and newspaper type-the Keyhole Kommentator. Even though his specialties are trivia and truffles, he does not hesitate to deal with tremendous things. . . . The formula is an ingenious one. Our commentator will report (A) that Gladys Gorgeous is going to be divorced next week, and (B) that Yugoslavia will attack us in six months. Comes next week and Gladys . . . gets her divorce...
...Times's Sunday Editor Markel (see above) had several ready reasons why nearly four times as many people read the tabloid Daily News as the Times. The Times scorns gossip, leg art and comics; but the fact is that even on the Times's home ground-the important news-the Daily News often says it better...