Word: paged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare that non-political news gets lead headlines. Says Ian Menzies, managing editor of the Morning Globe,"Tom (Winship) would fill the whole front page with politics if he could." There remain, to be sure, vestiges of the old home-town paper. Pictures of by-standers comforting the victims of car accidents still get put on page two. Violent headlines are the rule, even for routine items. But the grosser forms of parochialism have been removed...
Under Whipple's editorship, lead editorials have become as earnestly political as he himself is. Tea-table prose has been relegated to the "relief" editorial, an intentionally frivovlous piece at the bottom of the page...
Whipple's tampering with the editorial page has occasionally met with opposition. Since 1880, the lead editorials in the Globehave always been signed "Uncle Dudley." When Whipple decided to remove the embarrassing signature three years ago, he came up against stubborn staff resistance. Members of the staff argued that "people always talked about 'what Uncle Dudley said.'" Whipple went ahead and removed it. He adds parenthetically that he received only one letter after it was removed: "I'm glad you killed off Uncle Dudley--he was a nigger lover...
Even as late as the McCarthy period, the Globefelt forced to cling to its policy of vigorously dodging controversy. James Morgan, then editor of the editorial page, feared the Globe would lose a huge block of readers if it came out against McCarthy. He adopted a policy of silence. Says Whipple, who as an ex-Communist was no McCarthy sympathizer, "We tried to express ourselves between the lines rather than...
...exhaustiveness than balance. On a day when Kennedy and McCarthy both make news. Menzies tries to get an LBJ story and a Nixon story even if Johnson and Nixon have done nothing outside the routine. "What do we do on LBJ?" he asked the other day during a page-planning session, and staff members searched through news releases to find out how Johnson had spent...