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...trying to put together a magazine that can be both read and skimmed," says Gutwillig. Though the editors show a deft touch with short text blocks, few readers are going to be able to skim the three longish articles offered: a 5,400-word account by Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak of his November interview with China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, as well as the two cover stories on Rockefeller and Hearst...
...Iran story is a textbook example of why it is necessary to weigh on different scales what reporters say and what columnist-pundits do. A columnist is usually admired for the vigor of his opinions and regarded as wishy-washy if he does too much on-the-other-handing. In Iran, where so much is happening but so little is conclusive, a reporter who must return to the same story day after day just hopes events haven't undone what he has just written. His ambition is a humbler one: to describe confusion lucidly, and to allow a comfortable...
...Wissler now a lawyer; they and their two children live in Washington's Cleveland Park section. Those who know him almost invariably describe Graham as decent, pleasant and entirely unassuming. "He's just as good to the people who clean the bathrooms as he is to [Columnist] David Broder," says Post Police Reporter Alfred Lewis. One doubt that colleagues whimsically cite about young Graham's business acumen: he has been known to loan reporters money. His deeper footprints around the paper are harder to find. He was a competent if unspectacular sports editor; as general manager...
...columnists who seems to be managing to escape the fixed-ideology trap is William Safire, even though he began with a political label glued to bis back. Safire is the New York Times columnist (now syndicated to 500 papers) who was hired to offset the Times's Liberal tilt in pundits. At the Times, his appointment was unpopular. Wasn't he the flack who in Moscow maneuvered the Nixon-Khrushchev "kitchen debate" so that it took place in the model kitchen he was plugging? Wasn't he the nasty White House speechwriter who coined "nattering nabobs...
Safire is too light-footed to write like that. On his fifth anniversary as a columnist last April, he wrote that he avoids "evenhanded analyses, sage soul searchings or detached observations. I am in the business of writing informed polemics ... with a satisfying zap, so as to affect people in power and their policy in formation. In 1973 1 was hopelessly defensive; now I am happily aggressive...