Even disguised as the fictional Chicago Bugle in the novel "Rumor Has It," written by a former Sun-Times newspaperman, Charles Dickinson, it is recognizable: "Put up in the 1950's out of burnished aluminum, plate glass and thin slabs of black granite, the Bugle building was only seven stories tall.
"That means," said Dr. Fujii, perfectly satisfied, since after all the information came from a newspaperman, "that it can only be dropped on big cities and only in the daytime, when the tram lines and so forth are in operation".
Curtin, an erstwhile newspaperman, called it "a recipe for putting [redistricting] in the deep freeze".
(This is one scene in the movie that seems to owe more to Hollywood clichés of hard-bitten, fedora-wearing, mid-century newspapermen than it does to the way affairs were actually handled amid the carpeted comforts of mid-nineties magazines).
"At least one newspaperman stated that it was the saddest and maddest street in the world.
The decision to become a newspaperman, unexpected as it was, started Blaine on the road to a lifelong career in politics.
Every newspaperman knows the law: "if it bleed it leads".
The piece quotes Darwin Payne, a historian and former Dallas newspaperman: "You could feel it in the air.
"This interpolation is inserted for the benefit of any young newspaperman who may read it," he concluded in the typescript he would not complete for 42 years.
The current strategy of declining to provide full and accurate information about The New York Times's handling of this story, in fact declining to provide any information, seems to be more the strategy of a politician caught in wrongdoing, not newspapermen whose job it is to provide "all the news that's fit to print".
A Los Angeles newspaperman tried, unsuccessfully, to penetrate it.
