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...papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib 's own TV outlet...
Deeb began learning about broadcast practices at age 16, when he became an unpaid announcer at a Buffalo public TV station. He went to the Trib in 1973 after three years as a critic for the Buffalo News. Now 30, Deeb is one of the few radio and television reviewers on U.S. newspapers (out of an estimated 80 or so) who do anything more enterprising than rewrite network press releases. Characteristically, Deeb has not neglected to blast his colleagues either. He has called them "fuzzy-headed boobs whose minds were sealed shut at birth." Not too surprisingly, Deeb...
...seduction of a coworker. Breslin will be followed next month by Sportscaster Dick Schaap, and in the fall by Writer Nora Ephron and New Journalist Tom Wolfe. Most of those celebrities were attracted not so much by the money ($500 a week) as by their long friendship with former Trib Colleague Bellows and by the Star's fight for life. "The Star is the only place I would come to write in Washington," says Breslin. "It's no fun at the Post. Too big and successful, like an insurance company...
...went to the New York Herald Tribune as a political reporter in 1958. He wrote a weekly column on New York's city hall (accumulating grist for his 1965 novel, The Mayor of New York), then moved to Washington to cover the Pentagon and national politics. When the Trib, with Barrett on the story, was among the few papers to expose the Billie Sol Estes scandal, President Kennedy angrily canceled his subscription. He felt that the Herald Tribune, a Republican paper, was giving undue coverage to a Democratic scandal. "Covering public affairs at all levels," recalls Barrett...
...joined Time Inc. in 1951 and worked as a LIFE correspondent in New York and Washington before moving to Esquire as feature editor in 1957. Hired as editor of the Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine section in 1963, he transformed it into New York in 1968 after the Trib folded...