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Date: 20 February 2005
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich column on disturbing patterns in Bush administration handling of relations with press; cites recent scandal in which Jeff Gannon, whose real identity is James D Guckert and who is employed by Republican media organization, was given White House press credentials and used to push Bush agenda through carefully scripted questions at press conferences and creation of fake news stories; photo (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
By Tyler Brûlé
Tyler Brûlé
Tyler Brule article says most women television news anchors and reporters lack sense of style in how they dress and do their hair and makeup; drawing (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
By Ralph Blumenthal
Ralph Blumenthal
Robert B Eberle, operator of activist Republican Web site Gopusa.com, says he has known for two years that his White House correspondent went by two identities, Jeff Gannon and his real name James D Guckert, but denies that Guckert was Bush administration plant or was given preferential treatment as Republican partisan to ask soft questions at White House press briefings; Guckert told Eberle he did not like sound of his real name but had to disclose it to gain White House accreditation; photo (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
By Wolfgang Saxon
Wolfgang Saxon
Stuart Preston, former art reporter and critic for The New York Times, dies at age 89 (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
By Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent, in Public Editor column, notes that New York Times letters department receives 1,000 messages every day and publishes 15; says many letter writers complain about Times's hesitance to publish letters that make accusations against paper; suggests that letters could be appended to articles they address on Times's Web site; also suggests moving letters about news coverage away from editorial page and to space of their own, perhaps on corrections page (M)
Date: 19 February 2005
By Pam Belluck
Pam Belluck
Jury orders Boston Herald to pay $2.09 million to Superior Court Judge Ernest B Murphy, ruling that it libeled him in series of articles by reporter David Wedge that accused Murphy of making disparaging comments about crime victims; photo (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
By Steven Kurutz
Steven Kurutz
Article on Ron Trossian, 30, brash and aggressively outspoken publicist and founder and president of 5W Public Relations; Trossian's varied stable of clients include rapper Lil' Kim, actor Chris Noth, basketball player Jalen Rose, Trinity Braodcasting Network and its founder Paul Crouch, McDonald's Corp and Israel's Likud Party; photos (L)
Date: 19 February 2005
By George Vecsey
George Vecsey
George Vecsey Sports of The Times column discusses New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez, who did not answer reporters' questions at spring training about verbal sparring between New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox; photo (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
Reading File excerpts from Martin Amis article in Times of London about violence in urban slums of Colombia, Don Gillmor article in The Walrus, Canadian magazine, about literary heritage of hockey, and Christine Rosen article in New Atlantis magazine about growing trend through digital devices toward customized entertainment (M)
Date: 20 February 2005
By Dominic Patten
Dominic Patten
Pete Doherty, leader of British band Babyshambles, has coupled extraordinary musical success with number of brushes with law; unrelenting attention from media has now turned to well-publicized relationship with actress Kate Moss; photos (M)