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...other fellows are Nina Bernstein '70 of The Milwaukee Journal, Bruce Butterfield of The Providence Journal Bulletin, D'Veta Colin of United Press International, Jane Daugherly of The Miami Herald Nancy Webb Hatton of The Detroit News, Derrick Jackson of Newsday, Jan Jarboe of the San Antonio Express News, Albert Landler of The Great Falls Tribune, M.R Montgomery of The Boston Globe, Wendy Ross of The Washington Post, and Jacqueline Thomas of the Chicago Sun Times...
...industry call it "McPaper," in a slighting comparison to the McDonald's fast-food chain; the news briefs that predominate on more than a dozen of the paper's 40 daily pages are dismissed as "McNuggets." Says Anthony Insolia, editor of Long Island's Newsday: "I'm not sure USA Today provides a rich diet of daily journalism...
...mature, their prospects should improve. Says Mark Ethridge III, managing editor of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "We are doing much better at getting entry-and middle-level people. The next step is higher management." Minority journalists are not so sure. Les Payne, national editor of Long Island's Newsday and president of the National Association of Black Journalists, contends: "Some papers may be better than others, but we still have to break the pattern of inertia." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles and Don Winbush/Chicago
Many of the national pundits relied on regional newspaper and TV-station polls, which made some notable goofs. Surveys by the New York Daily News, Long Island's Newsday and a subsidiary of the Gannett News Service all gave Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mario Cuomo a final-week lead ranging from 9% to 13%; he won by 3%. The Illinois Governor's race brought on the worst polling failures: the Chicago Tribune found Republican Thompson ahead, 53% to 34%, and the Chicago Sun-Times had the race barely closer...
...Neuharth knows as well as anyone the odds on his gamble. No large, general-interest daily has been launched successfully in this country since Long Island's Newsday, which debuted back...