Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief of the St. Petersburg Times editorial page took a hard look at his own handiwork and found it wanting. Certain that few of the Times's 191,000 readers in ultraconservative St. Petersburg were reading-much less heeding-the paper's consistently liberal editorials, Robert Pittman expressed his dissatisfaction in a memo to fellow staffers last fall: "When an editorial writer doesn't know the answer to a problem, he frequently describes it as a dilemma. There are also many dilemmas in the concept of the present editorial page." As an alternative, Pittman proposed...
...Pittman's suggestion appealed to the Times's new editor, Eugene Patterson, who came to Florida last May. A Pulitzer prizewinning veteran of the Atlanta Constitution and the Washington Post, Patterson too was disenchanted with the detachment of traditional editorials. He had worked as a journalist during the Southern integration disputes of the 1960s. Of those days Patterson recalls: "I was constantly puzzled by my inability to make a rational argument heard. The reader tunes out what threatens him. You have to let him know you understand his position...
...city's small airstrip, an issue that was coming up for council consideration. The Times complied, presented reasons for and against the expansion, then opposed it editorially. Ultimately, the council approved the project, but at least the Times editorial page has begun to earn the kind of attention Pittman desired...
...Pittman by Ernest J. Games
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN, by Ernest J. Gaines. One of America's best but least-known novelists pursues the enduring seasons of the heart as an ancient black woman reviews the troubles she's seen since the Civil...