Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 87,000), for example, has hired three Chinese-speaking reporters and a photographer to improve the paper's coverage of the Boston suburb's fast-growing Asian community. But editor William Ketter, who is chairman of the minorities committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, believes newspapers have to go further. They must, he insists, make a "deliberate and conscious effort" to reflect the diversity of their communities in every part of the paper, including graphics and comic strips...
...Gannett editors are encouraged to include photographs of minorities and women on their front pages, and several Gannett papers have compiled handouts for reporters listing minority sources. Each year reporters are evaluated on their performance in a number of different categories, including "news of minorities." The company offers an annual All-American award to the paper that has done the best job of weaving minorities into its pages...
...this year that has all collapsed. Yes, RFK is full. Yes, the Skins are better on paper than most teams. Yes, the players try hard. But we lose...
Baker and Gates counter such charges, however, arguing that their work still involves the formation of clear political agendas. "I think that any scholarship that does not look to immediate social problems is not worth the paper it is written on," says Baker...
...anatomy of the recent leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco by the firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts--helped out by some $20-40 million from Harvard's endowment--sounds great on paper and is worth as much. Leveraged buyouts, in which huge companies are bought and sold and divided and merged solely for the purpose of raising the stock values, are running wild in America...