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...television program would be departure from the Lampoon's traditional magazine parody format. But after the success of recent Lampoon spoofs of "People" and "Newsweek," "the market's a little tight," Conan O'Brien '85, the Lampoon's president said, adding, "Lots of people are doing parodies. So we thought we'd experiment...and get into the wonderful world of television...
Criticism also hit, with less force, at publications that obtained rights to the diaries, including the London Sunday Times and the magazines Paris Match in France and Panorama in Italy, or that proclaimed the volumes a historic find, as Newsweek did in a May 2 cover story ("Hitler's Secret Diaries...
...Newsweek was raked by Columnist Anthony Lewis of the New York Times and by Ombudsman Robert McCloskey at Newsweek's sister publication, the Washington Post. Lewis said Newsweek had been either "gullible" or "shameless." He wrote: "The cover story raised the possibility of fraud. But it went on for pages about the historical significance of it all. And it said: 'Genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end.' It matters a lot." McCloskey argued: "The impression created [by Newsweek] with the aid of provocative newspaper and television advertising was that the entire story...
...When I turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." He said he was prepared "to stake my reputation" on their authenticity. Newsweek Consultant Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went to the same bank vault and reported that "my preliminary feeling was that they looked genuine." But he had reservations and said that much more study would be needed to be certain...
...sound ground but playing an awkward role was Kenneth Rendell, a Newton, Mass., autograph analyst who was paid $8,000 by Newsweek magazine. Also separately advising Stern, he put the two volumes brought to New York by Koch under his microscope, photocopied and enlarged the words, and concluded that the books were forgeries. When he told this to Koch, Rendell says, "he was absolutely devastated." At week's end Rendell said that his sole interest was to pursue his theories about how "this mess," as he called it, had been created. He predicted teasingly and without explanation: "There is potentially...