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...incident that may have soured Parker's prospects was the handling of diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. Last April Newsweek and other organizations bargained unsuccessfully for U.S. publication rights from the West German photo weekly Stern. Under Parker's supervision, Newsweek then ran an all but breathless cover story, synopsizing the memoirs, which included the memorable lines "Hitler's diaries-genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end." After they had been exposed as forgeries, Newsweek ran a second cover suggesting that it had played a major role in uncovering the fraud...
...amid the occasional misadventures, Broyles brought a number of achievements to the magazine. Newsweek produced a special issue in February that looked at 50 years of U.S. history through the lives of five ordinary families in Springfield, Ohio, and stretched the newsmagazine concept with a 25-page special report on a killer's road to the brink of execution. Broyles successfully sought to have stories be more "rooted" in the nation's basic concerns, a concept he expressed by using the word America, in some form, 14 times on twelve covers in 1983. Broyles, says a Washington correspondent...
...survey of 240 editors and reporters at the commercial networks PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and TIME, Political Scientists Stanley Rothman of Smith College and S. Robert Lichter of George Washington University found that 48% believed that the Government should guarantee jobs, 68% argued that the Government should narrow the income gap between rich and poor, and 88% held that the U.S. legal system favors the wealthy. On social issues, 90% believed that women should have a right to an abortion, and only 25% considered homosexuality morally wrong...
...Bernstein realizes her aversion to making the news business her career was a "typical adolescent problem of needing to separate from my father's identity," says Bernstein. Her father, Lester Bernstein, worked for Time magazine, NBC News and finally served as managing editor and Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek from...
...your professional side exults at each new horror story you discover because if 'll make good story," says Bernstein. "I can remember being appalled that my father was hoping Winston Churchill would die [at a convenient press-run time] to put him on the cover of Newsweek...