Word: sendler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publisher, Valerie Salembier, was brought in last fall; she cut a swath through the advertising department, firing the ad director and eliminating dozens of jobs -- then quit after just five months. On the editorial side, the managing editor and Hollywood bureau chief have resigned, and top editor David Sendler must now answer to a new corporate overlord: Roger Wood, former editor of the sensationalistic New York Post, which Murdoch owned until last year. "There's no interest anymore in analysis of the industry or in taking a serious look at the content of TV news," says an unhappy staffer...
...alone in complaining. ABC Senior Producer Richard Kaplan contended that Ribowsky had misattributed to Kaplan some disparaging remarks about ABC Correspondent Bettina Gregory; TV Guide admitted, in a footnote to Kaplan's letter published two issues later, that he was right. Nonetheless, insists TV Guide National Editor David Sendler, "We stand by our story." The magazine did not, however, stand by Ribowsky; he was dismissed. Explained Sendler: "There were internal problems with his journalism." Ribowsky blames TV Guide researchers for the misattribution, and insists that the reporting about Bradley was accurate. Says Ribowsky: "They hired...
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