FILE SHARING

I managed to upload two files of news and other clippings to AOL's Xdrive system. Both files are in HTML so you can view them in your browser.


Here's the link:Access 'My Documents ' on my Xdrive

There a lots of nice tidbits, like this one, that I never got around to posting:


The Man Who 'Stood Up to Scaife'
By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher


The episode began on Oct. 10, 1973. Carlton was serving as night editor at Tribune-Review. ... News flashed on the scoreboard that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew had resigned in disgrace.

Out in western Pennsylvania, someone else was among the vast majority of Americans who celebrated that day. After reading a wire service report on the Agnew resignation, a reporter at the Tribune-Review named Jude Dippold said, quite presciently, "One down and one to go." Of course, the "one to go" was President Richard Nixon, then embroiled in the Watergate scandal.

Dippold later said he was "just trying to be funny."

Word quickly got back to Scaife, who had purchased the paper four years earlier, and who had donated $1 million to Nixon's 1972 campaign against George McGovern. Two days later, Dippold was fired. The Columbia Journalism Review declared that the reason was that "his political views didn't mesh with editorial policy."

Carlton argued with Scaife about the firing, and ended up quitting in protest. Within hours, 10 of the paper's 24-person editorial staff also quit.