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Died. Laurence L. Winship, 85, who joined the Boston Globe in 1912, later served as Sunday editor, managing editor (1937-55) and editor before retiring in 1965 (he was succeeded by his son Thomas); after a long illness; in Marlborough, Mass. A tough-minded but easygoing newsman with a keen sense for big political stories, Winship put his old reporter's hat back on after retirement to cover the 1968 national party conventions for the Globe...
After checking some more and getting no flat denials of-the report, the Globe front-paged the story, only to learn that it had been had. After tracing down the genesis of the hoax, Editor Thomas Winship admitted last week: "We got egg all over our face...
...begun before Kennedy withdrew from the 1976 race, was not a hatchet job. The liberal paper has always been sympathetic to Kennedy, yet felt that it had to go ahead with the story despite the Senator's decision to bow out as a national candidate. Said Editor Thomas Winship: "We are not out to drive Ted Kennedy from office. We are trying to get more details on an important story affecting a public figure who will continue to be important." The biggest obstacle in obtaining those details was the continued silence of most of the ten men and women...
...Thomas Winship, editor of The Globe, acknowledged the significance of press accounts by issuing a directive to all reporters before the Garrity order went into effect. The memo largely instructed journalists to keep level heads and to make special efforts to report the news fairly. It said, for instance, that headlines, which "many of our readers will not get beyond," should be written with "delicacy...
...busing feud, and its editors shed the pretense of pursuing truth when they agreed to suppress some aspects of the news. Because forecasts of violence might be reckless or drunken prophecies from self-appointed augurs, they are perhaps not news and should not be printed anyway, but the Winship mandate betrays a self-important attitude maintained by the fourth estate over this two-week period, that it must support the state in its efforts to integrate...