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Perry believed that a newspaper's duty is to be "accurate, timely, incisive and pertinent. Forget fair." Journalists working under the stresses of life in big cities may think of smaller communities like Rome as tranquil. The fact is that Editor Perry may be closer to the kitchen, and to the heat, than they...
...conferences and interviews emerged historically as a means to check the unchallenged "Now hear this" of authority. The questioner exists to make that respond to aspects of the story, uncomfortable to them, that otherwise might not get heard. A one-sided presentation thus becomes more of a fair exchange. Editor Perry may want to forget fair, but in this business there seems to be no escaping...
...Frayn's novels, notably Sweet Dreams and Towards the End of the Morning, also evoke the slow decay of marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory...
When TIME's Nation section first began working on this week's cover story, which examines the crisis in liability Insurance, it intended to focus on America's courts. Says Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who oversaw the project: "We were planning to look at the sweepstakes-size jury awards that were being handed out in personal-injury cases. But we kept running into horror stories about manufacturers, doctors, lawyers, peace marchers, transit systems, municipal beaches, even whole towns that were having trouble getting insurance. So we decided to concentrate on the insurance crisis and look at all the causes, including...
...staff writer in 1978 and a year later became a correspondent in Washington, where he covered the presidential campaigns of Senator Ted Kennedy and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. He returned to the Nation section in 1981 as a writer. Four years later he was made a senior editor, and in January of this year he became Nation editor. "The Nation section is faced with a wide variety of potential stories to explore each week," says Isaacson. "The challenge is to figure out what is important and interesting. The liability-insurance crisis clearly is both...