Word: tarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tarter and the rest of the staff are serious about providing "arts and entertainment" information for the paper's college age-and-older reading audience, and they print lengthy schedules of the area's film showings, exhibitions, music and theatre ("after dark, in broad daylight, all over metropolitan Boston-the area's most complete, accurate listings," the paper jokingly advertises). Instead of featuring long film reviews, it prints 15 to 20 short reviews in each issue...
Even if the paper printed long reviews of every movie showing in Boston, a reader might not decide to see a movie until weeks after the review had appeared, Tarter said. In a city where movies have long runs, it makes no sense to run a long review, unless a writer wishes to write about a movie for his own reasons, he added...
Like McLelland's article, most of the writing in The Phoenix combines strict reporting with analysis. Writers do not "slant" their articles according to standard ideological positions-they do seem to "take seriously their responsibility to report on the news with some detachment," as Tarter says. But they are free to express their own opinions in their articles. In this way, they give their articles more perspective, but their writing could repel readers who are not in agreement with them...
...PAPER does not share the N.Y. Times's commitment to covering "all the news." The standard, "totalitarian" approach to news only showers a "layer of soot" on events, Tarter said. The Phoenix is not equipped to cover all the news, anyway. But it tries to make up for this with in-depth articles which point up a particular trend or provide a historical context for the news...
...original purpose of The Phoenix makes it much the same as the Village Voice. Tarter commented. "But not in a marketing sense." he quickly added. "The Village Voice makes a lot of money, but making money is not a reason to start a paper...