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...reputation for being fair and open-minded. He tempered the paper's traditionally liberal editorial stance while solidifying the page's influence. As TIME's Thomas Griffith once put it, he modulated the page's "Ugh, Big Chief Has Spoken" voice, leavening its ponderous eminence with impish wit ("Helsinki, Schmelsinki," proclaimed a skeptical editorial on the 1975 human-rights accords). Now the family man can look back and thank Reston for his advice. Max Frankel stands on the highest step of the Times platform, possessor of one of the most powerful jobs in American journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Max Frankel: A One-Newspaper Man | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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