Word: winship
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AMID ALL THE glowing reports of an economic recovery over the past two years, this comment by former Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship seems to be a bit out of place. The majority of news about the American economy centers on the positive effects that supply-side policies and Paul Volcker's tinkering with the money supply have had on big business. What the public doesn't hear about is the bitter aftertaste the "recovery" has left with larger numbers of people in the country who are just now beginning to realize the sham of the so-called economic boom...
...Winship told a group of journalists last weekend in Baltimore--only the "upper half of society" benefits from a revitalized national economy. While the public hears stories of an American economy growing at an unprecedented rate, this much-touted prosperity contains within it crucial contradictions...
...contrast in style between the two editors could hardly be more acute. Winship is elfin, effervescent, demonstrative and unassumingly rumpled. He tells stories of his financially modest youth and calls himself a "swamp Yankee." Janeway is shy, sardonic, reserved and elegant. He has the seigneurial manner befitting a son of Economics Columnist Eliot Janeway and Author Elizabeth Janeway (Powers of the Weak). Perhaps the only obvious characteristic the men share is that like dozens of their staffers they are graduates of Harvard, yet they agree on the problems the paper must correct...
...Globe hits exhilarating and exasperating extremes, by turns witty and influential, then erratic and arrogant. Its best quality is its dogged pursuit of corruption and injustice, even among liberal favorites: Winship says his most painful decision was to publish a probe of the personal finances of Edward Brooke-the only black elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction-which resulted in his electoral defeat. The seven-member Washington bureau and five foreign correspondents provide depth rather than routine wire-service-style stories, and the sports pages are perhaps the nation's best...
...nine months of 1984. He recognizes the paper's complex and imperfect character. "I want to nourish the traditions of individuality and crusading," he says, "but I may put greater emphasis on other flags we salute, such as consistency and keeping opinion out of the news columns." Adds Winship modestly: "Mike may be better at keeping the paper steady than...