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...Tribune: "When you damage the credibility of the Post you damage the credibility of the Des Moines Register and every other paper in the country." Shaken, many papers began re-examining their own policies on sources. "We are working at putting something in writing," says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship. Nowhere was the process so intense as it was at the Washington Post. Bradlee reminded the staff last week: "The credibility of a newspaper is its most precious asset. It depends on the integrity of its reporters. We must begin immediately the uphill struggle of restoring our credibility...
...older days, when candidates were more at the mercy of the press, there were frequent angry cries of bias. Hearing few such complaints from politicians this time, the Boston Globe's Winship frets that "we are probably not doing our job." That's more hair-shirting than is necessary; the rarity of partisan bias was refreshing. Several usually vociferous press commentators seemed stunned by unenthusiasm. "It's impossible to determine which of these men would be the more capable President," concluded the Washington Post's David S. Broder. On the Sunday before the election, Columnist Joseph...
Last month Tom Winship, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, chastised his colleagues because the campaign "ain't no box office hit, and the press deserves some of the blame. By and large, we are letting the candidates set the agenda." Winship repeated the familiar self-reproach that newspapers weren't raising significant issues. To which Paula Hawkins, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida, answers: "You never win an election on issues. The only people who want to be specific are editors and journalists. The people out there are tired of someone...
...midst of trying to round up final stray votes on the campaign trail, Jimmy Carter last week took time out to nominate Bank of America President A.W. (Alden Winship) Clausen, 57, to succeed Robert S. McNamara, 64, as president of the World Bank. The White House made the announcement now in order to head off growing sentiment among the 138 nations making up the World Bank that it was time for a non-American to head the organization. Ever since the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were jointly founded in 1944, the bank has been headed...
...published last month. The book's 109 selections show Goodman at her evenhanded best, a cool stream of sanity flowing through a minefield of public and private quandaries. "The thinking woman's Erma Bombeck," says an editor at the Los Angeles Times. Observes Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship: "She's talking over the back fence to everybody in a very sophisticated, grownup...