Word: posting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy that has become his signature. He personally picked an unusually small group of reporters to make the trip, and thus provoked another run-in with the press. Among the 34 publications that applied for space and were rejected were several that invariably cover such state trips: the Washington Post, TIME, the Ridder newspapers and the Baltimore Sun, Agnew's hometown paper. When the Sun complained, Agnew's press secretary Herbert Thompson replied: "To be quite honest, he doesn't like the Sun. He feels he is a hometown boy, and instead of taking pride...
...phone rings at the Washington Post. "Hello? Yes, this is Nicholas von Hoffman. You want to do a story about me? Hey, great! Every time somebody does one, I hit the paper for another raise. I tell them, 'Look at that. I'm getting famous...
...conversation is the essential Von Hoffman. Irreverent, breezy, arrogant, selfconscious, Nicholas von Hoffman has deliberately established himself as a completely subjective reporter. The Post has given him carte blanche to go anywhere and write anything, and three times a week the results go off resoundingly. For Von Hoffman has style; his literate wit and uncompromising outlook make him a sort of William F. Buckley of the New Left...
Sometimes he gets so vicious that even the gamely liberal management of the Post has to wince. "They're very admirable about it," Von Hoffman says. "They just grit their teeth and look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition and something of a saint to the liberal press, became a Hoffman target after he wrote an article criticizing young demonstrators. Von Hoffman called the Gardner article a "lawnorder pep talk...
...finally had to leave home." Starting at the Chicago Daily News, he earned a reputation as a first-class, if distressingly partisan reporter. Out of two assignments, the universities and the civil rights movement in the South, Von Hoffman wrote perceptive books and landed a job on the Post in 1966. "But there was always a question," he says, "of what to do with this idiot who seemed incapable of writing what fit into their definition of straight news...