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directed by Erik Anderson and Katrina Merritt at the Loeb Mainstage...
Directors Erik Anderson and Katrina Merritt have transformed this absorbing story into a fascinating musical. For over two hours, the audience is mesmerized by a harmonious interplay of music, dancing and a deluge of talent...
...highlight the issue. The challenge in newsrooms around the country was how to inform readers without appearing to give credence to charges that were unverifiable. "People talk about the media as if the Star, ABC, the Eagle and the New York Times were all the same," says Davis Merritt Jr., editor of the Wichita Eagle. "When we blur the lines by picking up from the Star, we invite that very devastating comparison...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...
...Berkeley, what I call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the University of Bologna and the French editor of an African magazine. As we rounded Lake Merritt -- an urban gem endowed with islands that attract migratory waterfowl -- she said she hadn't realized that Oakland is so beautiful. I replied that a lot of us run down this city that the rappers call "Oaktown" because we don't want anybody else moving here. I was more than...