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Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.
Robert Fisk • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
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since newsprint is a sixth of all U.S. paper production:
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The Hustle • The NYT’s next era isn’t about news - The Hustle
I have come to believe strongly, as I said earlier, that all successful news organizations start with visionary editors. There are no exceptions. But funders will frequently have agendas on what deserves more coverage. It is a significant error to let them supplant your editors’ vision, and never ends well.