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Still, these hair-raising books are being tailored for and energetically hawked to children. Is that frightening? The two most successful writers of teen thrillers, understandably, think not. Says Christopher Pike, 37, who stumbled into his calling in 1985 and now has 8 million copies of his books in print: "They want to be scared or they would not pick up the book and read it. The kids have fair warning and know it's all good...
...Stine, 49, who turns out a thriller a month and has 7.5 million copies of his 27-part Fear Street series in print, agrees that such books mean no harm. "Part of the appeal is that they're safe scares. You're home in your room and reading. The books are not half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like...
...venerable news-analysis show, Washington Week in Review. Since June, when Duke, 66, announced his decision to retire, much of the national press corps has been gaga over the prospect of succeeding him. At last count more than 50 applications had been submitted, including many from print journalists who, in other circumstances, enjoy belittling TV. But never mind consistency -- the Washington Week job is an opportunity not to be missed: the pay is good (low six figures); the lifting isn't heavy (one 30- minute broadcast a week, with four guests to help out); and the lucky winner will soon...
Breathes there a journalist with soul so pure that he or she would turn down all that? Doubtful. Those of us who scribble for a living have demonstrated that if you scratch us, you'll find a TV personality waiting, with batting eyelashes, to be discovered. For all of print's tut-tutting about TV, the most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing...
...National Republican Congressional Committee; whose specific mandate is to elect Republicans to Congress, is busy churning out print and radio copy. True to the Republican stereotype, these publicity efforts are attack ads, launched for the time being at the tax-and-spend tendencies of House Democrats. The theme: "They're at it again...