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...with it. After all, the Trump saga -- the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a business power, of Mr. and Mrs. Trump as social doyens -- has been a masterwork of media manipulation and self-promotion, abetted by a celebrity-worshiping press corps. But to watch a purportedly serious newspaper like Newsday report breathlessly in its lead story that "hotel records show that Maples paid no bills" is to discover where priorities in the news business are heading these days...
Donald Forst, Newsday's New York editor, explained that the war of the Trumps has riveted the media's attention "because it revolves around lust, power, money, sex. A man who was successful, who's written books or had books written for him, and now he's got a little mud on his shoes. People just...
...strongly in education). Editors have even employed polls to study journalism itself. In the mid-1980s, with newspaper readership declining relative to population growth, researchers diagnosed widespread public skepticism about journalists' methods and motives. Confounded by inconsistencies in those surveys, Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and several other papers, hired the Gallup organization to get to the truth. Gallup reassuringly reported in 1985 that no credibility crisis existed...
Mitsubishi Estate Co.'s purchase of controlling interest in the Rockefeller Group last month set off even more worrisome reports. JAPANESE BUY HEART OF N.Y., declared the Dallas Times Herald. "The roll call of all-American icons falling into foreigners' hands added a new name yesterday," reported Newsday. "When the whole house is being sold off, it doesn't matter much that a cherished heirloom goes as well," sobbed the San Jose Mercury News. The Sacramento Bee carried a photo of "delighted" Japanese tourists gazing at the property now controlled by "their countrymen...
This summer, Newsday, Long Island's bible of local politics, ran a cover story outlining the several dozen men (no women) who run Nassau County, listing their outrageous salaries (mostly for part-time jobs) and their potential conflicts of interest. The Republicans will still win again this year...