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Concerned about the credibility of the press, the American Society of Newspaper Editors in a poll of readers found that about two out of three consider their local paper reliable. But perhaps the most telling reader criticism was a feeling that reporters are too intent on "getting a good story and don't worry much about hurting people." People feeling hurt is what makes libel suits...
...cases be headed off? They often can, argued Gilbert Cranberg, Gallup professor of journalism at Iowa, summarizing the Iowa study at a convention of the Organization of News Ombudsmen in Minneapolis. The ombudsman, clumsy title and all, is usually an older editorial hand delegated to hear out and judge reader complaints. This can be a touchy assignment. Since he was not involved in the original story and does not feel defensive about it, he may be readier to recommend a correction or even an apology. Though there are about 1,800 daily newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, there...
That said, Robinson nonetheless achieves the true purpose of criticism: to impel his reader to return to the music itself, and to hear it anew. --By Otto Friedrich
...thrived on an undercurrent of patricide and matricide. Monstrous parents, it seems, are what gifted children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics, Transatlantic Blues), has managed to compose a mellow family chronicle that turns literary and psychological tradition on its head. This is more than a memoir; it is an occasion...
...Smith has reason to fear. Her new novel follows such a bell ringer, a haunting and resonant story of Appalachia called Oral History (1983). Family Linen uses the same narrative technique: members of a troubled clan are revealed directly to the reader, one by one, in contrasting chapters...