Word: taylors
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...clog and sully the National Conversation. Last week the television networks were pushed into the arena with proposals to give candidates free, unfiltered access to the airwaves during the closing weeks of the race this fall. Their offers represented a victory for crusaders led by apostate journalist Paul Taylor and his coalition Free TV for Straight Talk, which has argued that the best way to counteract voter apathy and mounting cynicism is to create some new kind of forum in which the candidates would compete, gloves off, no referees and certainly no journalists...
Into this furor comes Taylor, erstwhile political reporter for the Washington Post, who apart from general civic-mindedness had his own reasons for taking up this crusade. It was he who in 1987 asked presidential candidate Gary Hart whether he had ever committed adultery, thereby changing forever the rules about probing the private lives of public figures. "There's no question that it prompted a whole lot of soul-searching in me," Taylor says...
That search deepened when he went overseas in 1992 to cover South Africa's march to democracy. Taylor acquired, among other things, a bullet in his shoulder during a shoot-out near Soweto, as well as a profound sense of the gap between how democracy is viewed in a country that is enchanted by its promise and one that is disgusted by its processes. "Part of the reason we've built up a $5 trillion deficit over the past 15 years is that we don't trust our politicians," he says. "Therefore, our politicians don't have the political freedom...
...when Campaign '96 rolled around, Taylor shocked his editors by standing down, leaving the business in order to lobby it, and persuading the Pew Charitable Trusts to fund his new role as a "journalism reformer." Working with ex-CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite and other industry and government pooh-bahs, he set out to talk the networks into giving the candidates free airtime--anywhere from two to five minutes a night in prime time. "I would hope it could unfold as kind of a running debate, with Clinton responding to what Dole said last night and back again," he says...
Edward Daugherty is shown at the height of his powers in The Flaming Corsage, when his play of the same name scandalizes proper Albanians in 1912. In Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, set in the mid-1930s, Daugherty is forgotten and senile. Katrina Taylor, his lovely, highborn wife in the new novel, was evoked in Billy, as she was in Ironweed. The leading character of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Ironweed was an alcoholic ex-baseball player, Francis Phelan. In the new novel he is Katrina Daugherty's ardent young lover...