Word: mogg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books. For the record, there will be three eight-page obituary supplements. The Sunday Times, which bought serialization rights to Henry Kissinger's memoirs more than a year ago, will finally be able to print them. No other new wrinkles are contemplated, however. Says Times Editor William Rees-Mogg: ''What people want is the Times back. We'll produce the Times as it was, without change...
Times Editor William Rees-Mogg defended his editorial as a needed blow against what he sees as an "increasing trend in Fleet Street to competitively intrude into people's private lives." Many Britons seemed to agree. The four offending papers were deluged with letters expressing sympathy for George-Brown. The Daily Mail devoted its entire letters page to complaints on the matter-but noted that it did so because "newspapers, like politicians, operate in the public arena...
London Times Editor William Rees-Mogg recently started a controversy by attacking U.S. press coverage of the Watergate investigation and arguing that British papers have more respect for the rights of suspects. British restraint, he argued, protected "universal principles" of justice. He had hardly returned to London from a U.S. visit when an uncomfortable reminder of that restraint was visited on his paper...
...leader, written by Times Editor William Rees-Mogg, gave full credit to the journalists who originally made crucial disclosures. But now, Rees-Mogg contended, the televised Senate hearings, the leak-prone grand jury investigation and the publication of assorted prejudicial statements have pulverized due process. He said, in effect, that Nixon is being convicted in a kangaroo court of public opinion...
...Post, which Rees-Mogg had singled out for special blame, along with the New York Times, replied that...