Word: supereditor
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Tales circulate of Si Newhouse playing supereditor, objecting to the blaze of colors on a proposed magazine cover or grumbling about a choice of stories. Meetings with him can take on the character of interrogation, and they often occur at disquietingly early hours: Newhouse generally starts his office day at 4 a.m. Even the supporters among his employees -- and they are far fewer off the record than on -- describe him as exacting and occasionally fierce. One new editor was sternly rebuked after having lunch at the Four Seasons, not for going to that expensive Manhattan eating gallery but for allowing...
...eulogize my Dictatorship and I protect your jobs." As to foreign correspondents, the longer they remain in Rome the more they lose their impartiality. Some turn sour and smuggle out whatever they can smell against Fascism. Others settle down sweetly to write as if on the staff of a supereditor who happens to be directing not only all the newsorgans of Italy but all Italy...
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