Word: markel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monthly TV program called News in Perspective premiered on New York's earnest educational TV station WNDT. It was a New York Times show all the way, starring the Times's autocratic Sunday Editor Lester Markel, and featuring the Times's Washington diplomatic correspondent, Max Frankel, and White House Correspondent Tom Wicker...
...Every time a set owner looks up, he sees somebody else from the New York Times," groused Gould in his column. "Mr. Markel's program had interesting intentions but, unfortunately, they were not realized in the slightest. The New York Times has everything to learn about doing news on television. The debut of the Times . . . was superficial and often trite . . . dull . . . disconnected . . . overdone . . . awkward...
Five for One. Though he seems to be in a lonely minority, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 69, who also runs the News of the Week in Review, the Drama and the Book Review sections, somehow manages to ignore all those girls in hip-hugging scanties. "This magazine is governed by the complexion of the news," says Markel, and not by the tastes of the woman who needs a new foundation. "I edit for Markel. I print things that interest me." What interests the crusty, 40-year veteran are broad-stroked stories on important, reasonably current topics-desegregation, the Common Market...
...professional years, Lester Markel, 68, has edited the prestigious Sunday magazine of the New York Times. During that time, Sunday Editor Markel has stored up his share of gripes about the competence of his colleagues. In the current Harper's Magazine, Markel fires off a volley at what he calls "The Real Sins of the Press"-a scattershot barrage so broad that some of its shells might well fall on Markel's own paper...
Some of his targets have been shot at before. ("Too many American newspapers are media of entertainment rather than of information"; "newspapers are failing to make the important news understandable," have "lost much prestige as leaders of public opinion".) But as he rakes these familiar topics, Marksman Markel occasionally discovers a new angle of fire...