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...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...
...chance but design that the bulkiest Sunday newspaper of them all, the New York Times, is by no means devoted to fluff; the Times Sunday news sections generally outweigh the total contents of many of its competitors. "The trend on Sunday as well as daily," says Lester Markel, 67, Times Sunday editor for 38 years, "must be toward what I would call emphasis on the news rather than entertainment. Newspapers can't compete with television for entertainment." More and more Sunday papers are beginning to wonder whether they should even...
...years as the restlessly perfectionist editor of the New York Times's fat, sober Sunday supplements, Lester Markel, 64, has always put fact above fancy (and reaps his reward in juicy ads for bras, girdles and lingerie). In the latest Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Markel chides other editors for stressing entertainment. "I have been impelled at times," says he, "to inquire whether [we] should not properly be called The Froth Estate...
Writes Editor Markel: "I don't outlaw Dick Tracy or Li'I Abner, but I insist that a newspaper shall print a goodly amount of information. In the long run, [editors] will discover that they cannot compete with TV in the variety field, and therefore that the future lies in the information area. Too many of them have abdicated this function to the news weeklies and to the silver-screen, gold-plated commentators. They had better move quickly to regain their news standing." Other Markel criticisms: ¶ "Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information...