Volume 27, Number 14 · September 25, 1980

Winners and Losers at the 'Times'

By Murray Kempton
Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times
by Harrison E. Salisbury

Times Books, 630 pp., $17.50

Harrison Salisbury's study of The New York Times is like the Times itself, painstaking but not often pain-inflicting. Burdened with the duty to be reverent, both are raised now and then to revelation—usually, in the case of the Times, toward the third paragraph from the bottom of the story.



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