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Complaints from former employees about his record as editor of The Detroit News during a major strike at the paper delayed his appointment by over three weeks this summer. Reporters, many of whom Giles had fired during the strike, said he presided over a newsroom that produced highly biased coverage of the labor dispute that they believed should have disqualified him from...
...pressures of making a profit and working for a chain instead of for an independent institution shape the way that Gannett editors operate in the newsroom, some...
...realm of political thought, that description of my collegiate experience is also deficient in its own way. I have studied the great works of the Western Canon, but when I recall my college education, it is not Plato or Locke or Nietzsche that comes to mind--it is the newsroom of The Harvard Crimson. My diploma may read "social studies," but my schooling has been in the craft of journalism...
...many who feel slightly estranged from the world around them, journalism becomes an outlet for their disaffection. This may explain why so many who write for The Crimson do not fit the traditional Harvard mold. It is safe to say that if the late President Lowell looked around the newsroom, he would be slightly aghast...
Regardless, however, many around at the time say the climate of the newsroom in the '70s and early '80s was one that was not friendly to homosexuals, and most stayed deeply within the closet for fear that discovery would affect their careers...