Word: washingtonians
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Political bias is only one element of the unchecked-error syndrome. Another could be labeled the pseudoauthoritative dodge. Washingtonian, a prosperous, glossy monthly, does an annual salary survey. This fall's version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME staffers were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they...
...prose was quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign and laudatory. (These will be suitably framed and hung on my office wall as soon as time permits.) But there are enough unalloyed clinkers in this little collection to raise disturbing questions. If Washingtonian didn't get my pay right, how many other numbers in that story were wrong? If the New York Times -- ostensibly the newspaper of record -- adopts a dubious item from a gossip column, how many other colorful anecdotes are published without being checked for accuracy...
Recalling his entrance to the statehouse in 1965, the Washingtonian said changing from private citizen to private figure caused a major shift in his family life. Evans explains that his wife had a difficult job, with two of their sons in pre-school and the third a newborn...
...reason for the shortcomings of the reports is that they were prepared before it was clear who the next President would be. Had a non-Washingtonian $ like Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis won, he might have needed suggestions on how to set up an Administration and order his priorities. For Bush, such promptings are old hat. For example, by the end of last week he had at least begun work on each of the four "key decisions" listed in the 68- page foreign policy transition manual prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...Nebraska and Nevada. Sen. David K. Karnes (R-Neb.) who was appointed to the post following the death of Sen. Edward Zorinski, is trailing popular former Gov. Robert Kerrey by a significant margin. And Sen. Chic Hecht (R-Nev.), who was voted one of the least effective senators by Washingtonian magazine, and was considered a re-election long-shot from the start, will probably fall to Democratic Gov. Dick Bryan in a close race...