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Once they saw what Stockman was telling Greider, why didn't they assign some economics people to do that story?" Adds Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Greider was walking a pretty thin line. If he were working for me, I would want those quotes, those contexts and Stockman's identity in my newspaper...
...Boston, the capital flap took Atlantic Editor William Whitworth, 44, by surprise. He did not see the Stockman story as a political blockbuster, rather more as a "good piece of reporting that explains something about how this budget business works that I have not seen explained in quite the same...
...Stockman article is the latest in a series of major articles that Whitworth has secured since coming aboard six months ago. Excerpts from Robert Caro's book on Lyndon Johnson prompted a flurry of news stories. Zuckerman expects a similar reaction to two selections from Garry Wills' forthcoming book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, an analysis of John Kennedy's presidency, to run in the January and February issues. Later in the year, the Atlantic will publish parts of Reporter Seymour Hersh's book on Henry Kissinger. The magazine's editors insist that their primary focus remains...
Nobody likes seeing a young man succeed, but nobody enjoys seeing him suffer either, so it was with eager pity that the nation watched David Stockman eat crow before the press last Thursday. Had Mr. Stockman talked less to the press earlier he would not be squirming now, but garrulity was not his blunder. Mr. Stockman's Administration-shaking mistake was not that he talked, but how he talked. He used a metaphor. Moreover, it was "a rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor," as he put it un-metaphorically in his news conference. Yet life would be no rosier...
...thing, metaphors create images, and in a line of work that survives by means of obfuscation, images are land mines. A politician who uses even a perfect metaphor (far from which was Mr. Stockman's) is asking for a good deal of trouble because, if his judgment is wrong, people will not forget his imagery, nor will they let him forget it. A politician who uses a metaphor ineptly is in worse trouble still, because he will be remembered for being both vivid and confused-a condition not unknown among his peers, but of no personal advantage. The only...