Word: woodlief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Desks and loans matter." says Storin of the Globe. "They tell us something about a man's values." Wayne Woodlief of the Herald agrees. These incidents take you beyond the candidates' nights, beyond their stands on issues." But, argues Hartnett, "It's a lazy man's way to report. They should follow up. They should go out into the street...
Journalists defend the polls. "Sure, they're skewing the race," Woodlief said. "I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. They winnow out the candidates. They give a framework to the competition. At some point we have to look at the probable winners...
...have been dearly hurt by the vacillation was Dennis J. Kearney. A first poll commissioned in early August--which the Globe wouldn't publish--showed Kearney a contender at 12 percent. That good news, at that point, "could have made it a four-man race," muses the Herald's Woodlief. But by the time of the Globe's second poll, released September 20. Kearney had slipped into single-figure obscurity...
...polls sneak back? "It's part of politics," Storin says. Or more bluntly, from Woodlief: "Everybody's doing it. We're gonna look like asses if we don't compete...
...Personally, I feel almost a squeamishness about getting into what could be a very ugly subject," Woodlief says. "The whole prospect of not reporting white backlash, the seamier side, has been not wanting to throw the first stone. It hasn't been there so far. I don't want to generate it, or even appear to be generating...