Word: newfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JACK NEWFIELD and PAUL DU BRUL...
...movie Network, a manic anchorman exhorts his listeners to proclaim through open windows that they won't take abuse any more. In real journalism, Jack Newfield screams a similar demand, but he wants his audience to protest in closed voting booths. Rage rather than dementia drives this full-time muckraker-one reason why his novelty value has survived six books and hundreds of articles; few can match the fresh indignation he brings to old scams...
...small clue to Schiff's intentions might have been her request last month to see clippings on Murdoch, the announcement came as a surprise. Schiff's editors were not even tipped in time to break the news in her own paper. Said Village Voice Senior Editor Jack Newfield, himself a former Postman: "As usual, the paper was scooped by everybody...
...quickly, hoping after weeks of indictments and political tightrope-walking, to be lost in the crowd. He had built the new stadium as much as anyone, profited more than most. Cunningham was general counsel to the Yankees as well as party chairman, and there were those (most cogently, Jack Newfield of the Village Voice) who said maybe he had mixed his functions, more than a little. "The stadium is going to cost the city $24 million and six judgeships," New York's city council president had said in 1971. On opening day, 1976, Cunningham had been indicted...
...after it was founded by George A. Hirsch, 41, who had quit as publisher of New York magazine in a dispute with Editor Clay Felker. Hirsch assembled a staff of contributors that read like a Who's Who of liberal and "new" journalism: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Jack Newfield, Mike Royko, Dick Schaap and other print celebrities. That was a mistake. When they found the time to produce, the results were too often lightly researched, ill-organized and self-indulgent...