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...photos of a dead celebrity in his casket. Rather than mock the already preposterous, Westlake explores the mentality that capable, rational people would need in order to crank out such stuff. In a particularly wry inversion of the norms of detective fiction, a young woman reporter bursts into the newsroom on her first day to tell her bosses she has come upon a murdered corpse just a few hundred yards from their office -- only to have it explained to her that unless the victim is a household name, this item has no news value. The young woman soon learns...
...last bastions of no-holds-barred, spit-in-the-eye tabloid journalism, the Post's owner, Real Estate Magnate Peter Kalikow, presented her with a T shirt emblazoned with the paper's now legendary April 15, 1983, headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. As earthy Post newsroom veterans (uncomfortably adorned in ties and jackets) were introduced to their new boss, many wondered if Amsterdam, of late an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, one of the toniest book publishers in the country, was up to the job. Says Amsterdam's friend and former boss, Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward...
...performers are tops, from Jack Nicholson as the sour, imposing anchorman who strides through a newsroom decimated by layoffs muttering, "and all because they couldn't program Wednesday nights," to the three principals. Actor-Auteur Albert Brooks (who cast Jim Brooks -- no relation -- in his own second film, Modern Romance) is the all-time appealing schlemiel, notably in a laugh-nightmare when he anchors the network news and sweats his career down the tubes. (Says one appalled technician: "This is more than Nixon ever sweated.") Hurt is neat too, never standing safely outside his character, always allowing Tom to find...
...right for the Times to admit the error, but the prominence of the correction dismayed some staffers. Craig Whitney, the Times Washington bureau chief, said he felt "immense surprise" when he saw the headline. At the Times's New York City newsroom, where the tiniest changes are often analyzed more carefully than seating plans at the Kremlin, reporters debated the propriety of the correction. All agreed, however, that it was the most remarkable sign yet of the controlling hand of Max Frankel, who became the paper's executive editor in November...
...three intuitive assumptions. First, if a news organization accuses someone, it ought to be able to prove its charges. Second, a public figure whose career depends on his reputation ought to enjoy, if anything, greater protection from unsubstantiated attack than an ordinary citizen. Third, documented disagreement within a newsroom about a story's validity -- followed by its publication -- shows the news organization doubted the story's accuracy...