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...news. The conflict was over and now Bradlee wanted simply to report events. When a Women's Wear Daily reporter penetrated Bradlee's office, the executive editor personally ejected her with the admonition: "This is not the place to be writing about." In Boston, Globe Editor Tom Winship, another longtime Nixon foe, impassively watched the speech with his newsroom staff, then remarked quietly: "He went out with dignity...
...moved their lips when they read, but then so did the editors"). His views do not exactly coincide with those of the liberal Globe either. In 1971, after Frazier savaged the TV performance of five earnest young Boston reporters, attacking them mainly for looking tacky on camera, Editor Tom Winship sacked him. Frazier promptly hired a small plane to fly over a jammed local football stadium trailing a banner: BRING BACK GEORGE FRAZIER. He was soon rehired...
...best newspaper was the New York Times. Some Bostonians might give that title to the widely respected Christian Science Monitor, though it is now largely a journal of commentary rather than of breaking news. For nearly a century, the Globe offered no competition, but it unproved abruptly after Tom Winship, 53, became editor in 1965. The following year the Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its campaign to block a federal judgeship for Francis X. Morrissey, a crony of Joseph P. Kennedy's. Its four-man "Spotlight" investigative team picked up another Pulitzer for a 1971 expose of municipal...
After entering The Globe's Morrisey Blvd. building, the demonstrators asked to speak to Globe editor Thomas Winship and demanded that The Globe print a PLP statement denouncing the coverage of the murders on the first page of its Sunday edition...
...Although Winship was not in the building at the time, the students insisted that he be called in and said they would remain in the display advertising office until he appeared...