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BYLINES by Bernard Weinraub...
Compared with that spoof, Bylines is almost as sober and magisterial as the Times. Bernard Weinraub still reports for the Times from Washington, or at least he did before this book came out. His story opens with an endearingly manic-depressive editor who leaps naked from an eleventh-floor window before it can be determined whether the man resembles either A.M. Rosenthal or Arthur Gelb. The event touches off a torrid competition for the newly vacant editorship among a B-movie cast of newsroom characters: the likable but alcoholic deputy managing editor, the sober but inexperienced female national editor...
Improbably, all the candidates conclude that the way to win the editorship is to come up with the Big Story. Despite so much interoffice sex that it is a wonder the paper ever comes out, Weinraub's tale sprints to its end as smoothly as a web offset press. Bylines is too gussied up with made-for-television passion and greed to resemble life at a big-city newspaper. The unlikely competition for the naked and dead editor's job does, however, neatly bear out the second rule of journalism: you're only as good as your...
...would have reason to embarrass Percy in this fashion? And why? The Times was not about to tell its readers. But Times Reporter Bernard Weinraub was more scrupulous than journalists usually are in such cases. He indicated that the leak had not come from Ambassador Watson or the State Department, but from the Republican transition team, some of whose members ardently oppose SALT. Weinraub even listed six members of the transition team most dismayed by Percy's performance. Two days later the Washington Star identified one of the six-John Carbaugh, an aide to North Carolina's archconservative...
...opportunities. Early in the Iranian crisis, John Chancellor of NBC had worried about getting those demonstrators off TV, fearing a "possible wave of jingoism" in this country, but it never surfaced. Now that Iranian demonstrators have no cameras to show off in front of, New York Times Reporter Bernard Weinraub concludes that Americans still seem concerned about the hostages. But, as he quotes Bill Leonard, president of CBS News: "There's a softening of interest, people are emotionally less involved...