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Mean Appearance. Taking grim stock of the situation, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney wrote an eloquent Page One indictment of the unions and a last-minute plea for cooperation. "In the past," he said, "management's side has always been modestly withheld for fear of offending the negotiators and labor has had its say effectively so that we always appeared either mean or incompetent and sometimes both." Whitney conceded that the publishers had much to answer for in the past. But the present problem, he went on, is "here and now when we are trying to make...
Could it be, Whitney wondered, that the unions have "concluded that they don't need us, that we are weak and not worth saving"? He did not deny that the Trib is financially weak indeed. "Maybe they think that in this pale stone," he wrote, "there is another drop to be squeezed out. There isn't. The newspapers of this city, for all the fact of the competition among them and the ancient work practices they are forced to follow, have the most expensive union contracts in the country...
Lively Companion. "I bought the Herald Tribune eight years ago because I believe deeply in the value of articulate, intelligent discussion of our world," wrote Whitney, almost as if he were expecting the imminent demise of his paper. "I wanted it to continue to be what I always thought it was: a lively companion to a wide circle of friends. I did not buy it to make myself wealthy or famous or powerful. You cannot buy the traditions and principles of this newspaper; you can only lend them a hand toward survival. That effort has not been completely successful...
While the New York newspaper unions were getting their lumps from Publisher Jock Whitney, the Washington press corps was taking an equally sharp pasting from a former colleague. Speaking with the experience of 35 years as a reporter, Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers' new assistant, Robert H. Fleming, denounced the sloppy performances turned in by so many of the men he now has to deal with. In a speech to the Washington chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Fleming got his collected gripes off his chest...