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From: mamula@fluke.UUCP (Don Mamula)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: NYT Liberal (?)
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Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 02:23:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 02:23:06 1983
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References: <228@houxu.UUCP> It seems that you have a few things to learn about the field of
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journalism. Your message has so many gaping holes and assumptions that I
have to take you to task.

    You ascribe a very interesting motive to the Times coverage of national
and international events. Not that the event is newsworthy of its own
merits, but that it "effects" (sic) business.  I am not the greatest fan of
the Times, but they cover the world for the sake of covering the world. The
motto of the paper is "All the News That's Fit to Print", and they really
try to do that. (Though some argue it should be "All the News That Fits We
Print")

    As for the comments on the op-ed page, many papers use this spot as a
place for "opposing viewpoints".  The Chicago Tribune ran Nicholas Von
Hoffman, Mary McGrory, and James Reston on its op-ed page, and those writers
are far from the Trib's editorial norm. The same goes for the collection at
the Times.

    Now on to the editorial page. In the newspaper business, Saturday is the
slow day for editorial. The breaking stories tend to get handled during the
week, while Sunday is the prime editorial day. Go back and look at the
Sunday edition. How does that editorial section compare with Saturday's?? If
you say they match up, then you are blind to the black and white in front of
your face.

    One more thing - your comment on the New Republic and the New York
Review of Books. First, how do you manage to put the two together, and secondly, why only slightly to the left. For years, the New Republic has been the
intellectual journal of the left, as the National Review has been to the
right.  Does this mean that the left has lost that intellectual fervor and
surrendered to conservative thought??

    For more insight into the Times, and it's historically background, try
David Halberstram's book "The Powers That Be". In it, he also looks at the LA
Times and the Washington Post.


				  Don Mamula
				  John Fluke Mfg. Co.
				  Everett, WA
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