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Article: THE NEW REPUBLIC Will Martin Peretz get serious? He has an editor to choose - and his magazine's reputation to rescue
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 12, 1996
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Mark Jurkowitz, the Globe's ombudsman, also writes media criticism
from time to time.
CAMBRIDGE -- Consider it just one more Beltway institution in
turmoil. At age 82, The New Republic finds that its long-standing
reputation as a bible of the nation's political and opinion leaders
is fraying.
The fate of the Washington-based magazine lies largely in the
hands of Cambridge's Martin Peretz, the Harvard lecturer,
philosopher, entrepreneur and raconteur who has owned and steered the
"weekly journal of opinion" for the last 22 years. In the aftermath
of a fairly messy split with editor Andrew Sullivan, amid charges
that the publication has strayed from its mission and lost clout in
Washington ...