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...Timesmen Talese describes are not likely to be grateful to him. Sometimes he presents them in quasi-cari-cature. But for all his citified cynicism about personalities, Talese and his book remain oddly in awe of the "good gray lady." and some of his ripest overwriting is put to the service of its glorious past and present. This means that the New York Times emerges from Talese's chronicle-cum-novel with most of its mythology intact. A good reason why The Kingdom and the Power, like the newspaper itself, is best read with a selective...
...readers accept as reality." Within the sprawling kingdom, several dukes jealously protect their own fiefdoms and young knights strive to develop their own. It is a kingdom filled with tension. "During the last few years a quiet revolution has been going on within the Times," writes Talese. "Older Timesmen feared that the paper was losing touch with its tradition and younger men felt trapped by tradition...
...mock-up of a new afternoon paper through a dry run. Dummies of the Times's entry, dated Oct. 1, show a standard-size page comprising only six columns. As yet unnamed, the new paper is the result of brain-trusting by a twelve-man committee of Timesmen headed by Assistant Managing Editor A. M. Rosenthal. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel stressed that the Times as yet has made no decision to publish. "This is an experiment to see what type of afternoon paper it might be if we go ahead. It is an effort to conceptualize...
...Naked Ambition." From that new position, says the courtly Kentuckian who is still Mr. Krock to most Timesmen, many things seem to have changed for the worse. He deplores the powerful unions that have helped to kill some papers, and he dislikes the trend toward specialization among reporters. Not that some of the specialists are not superb, but where is "the old general-assignment man with the cold objectivity in questioning officials?" Today's reporters, says Krock, "frame questions on an argumentative basis instead of primarily to elicit information...
Credit the Boss. St. Pete Timesmen cover a geriatric city, but they need their youth to keep up with the paper's tradition of aggressive, investigative reporting. The paper won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for its scandal-packed report on a Florida turnpike boondoggle; most recently, it took out after Governor Haydon Burns with stories attacking him for nepotism and doing questionable favors for an insurance man. The Times's crusade helped defeat Burns's re-election bid in the May primary...