Word: reads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe our opposition to apartheid is as strong and as sincere as that of anyone at Yale or anywhere else," the statement read...
...Morrison was a poet, but he didn't live out his vison," she said. "I always had the idea that poetry and music were partners, you know, and it's really true that one implies the other. Youyouyou you can't read three stanzas of poetry without setting a musical pattern of some kind, and any kind of music makes you feel a certain way, you know, a certain way you can describe in words...
...emphasis is a decided preference for local news. Yet, oddly enough, even though only a third of the readership follow national and international news closely, most readers seem to want it there on Page One and tend to resent front-page feature stories. Another third of the audience would read hard news more if it were summarized better, compartmentalized like a newsmagazine, and signposted like a supermarket aisle. The remaining third of the population just want escapism; they are part of a growing number who buy papers only on food days, and on Sundays...
...readers, it turns out, mean something else by the bias they criticize: they mean the tendency of newspapers to "emphasize bad news over the good." They are convinced that this is done just to sell papers; they admit to liking to read crime news but feel a little ashamed in doing so. They think their home town is better than the newspaper paints it. Talking to his own readers in Dayton, Editor Rosenfeld found them questioning the editor's self-righteous conviction that he only reports a world he never made: "Readers see us as moral vigilantes . . . the voice...
...current champions, however, is hugely disappointing. Chass covers the Yankees for the New York Times, and covers them well, with style and accuracy. Here he gives us over 60 pages with almost nothing about baseball but plenty about theh Steinbrenner-Martin-Jackson love triangle. Admittedly, it's fun to read some of Reggie "Reggae" Jackson's egotistical yammerings...