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Hearst has asked other papers and local radio and television stations to comply with the S.L.A. ultimatum concerning coverage. Chronicle Editor and Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, a close friend of Hearst's, readily agreed...
Hearst and Thieriot feel that they do not have that luxury. Thus the Examiner and the Chronicle have printed a long, windy S.L.A. manifesto. Both ran a second letter and the transcript of a tape recording of Patty Hearst's voice: the Examiner added a photocopy of the letter for good measure. Later tapes of Patricia received similar play. While stressing the story's newsworthiness, many San Francisco newsmen chafe at giving a handful of terrorists unlimited space. But, as Examiner Editor Tom Eastham observes, "There appears to be no alternative...
...Russell Wolclen. The paper disclosed that Wolden gave favorable tax assessments to his friends, a crime for which he was later convicted. When the Chronicle and the Examiner merged in September 1965, much of Newhall's competitive drive was diverted into conflict with Publisher-Owner Charles de Young Thieriot...
Ever since Thieriot inherited control of the Chronicle in 1955, he has been slowly shifting to the right. More and more, Newhall was forced into a buffer position between his young liberal staff and the conservative publisher. The feeling among Newhall's associates last week was that the weary editor had left because he was just plain fed up with ideological disputes with his publisher. Thieriot, 56, denies any such division between himself, his staff, or Newhall for that matter: "It's not true that we're poles apart. We get along pretty damn well...
Even though some of his crusades seem outrageous, Newhall is no Don Quixote. When he and Publisher Charles Thieriot took over the Chronicle in 1952, the paper was sobersided and international-minded. Circulation was 155,000, behind two mediocre competitors, and profit-and-loss figures showed only losses. Newhall de-emphasized foreign affairs and accentuated a breezy-and sometimes banal-mixture of splashy local stories and columnists, including San Franciscophile Herb Caen and Art Hoppe, the West Coast's answer to Art Buchwald. One of the paper's series, probing the police department, went...