By: Scott Rosenberg
Charlie – Yes, I agree — it’s a high bar. I think the only thing I can add here is that you were my first example at setting the bar high!
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Hi Charlie. I disagree with the premise that we missed this story in the late 1970s. Even now, there was no story until the last alleged offender left the scene. A story for us would have required an...
View ArticleBy: Marc
Thanks for launching this exchange, Scott…I think Jerome has it right: We surely thought we knew something back when we were 16 and 17, but what we “knew” then is rather different from what the Times...
View ArticleBy: Scott Rosenberg
To be clear, by “missing the story” I’m not literally suggesting that we should have done an investigative series on sexual malfeasance in 1976. I mean the phrase in a wider sense. Our first draft of...
View ArticleBy: Barb
There are many kids at Horace Mann whose parents pay a staff of tutors to make it through. It is a school for really smart kids. However, many parents feel the need of preserving their status by...
View ArticleBy: Bob F.
Scott, Thanks. This is a painful for moment for many and for different reasons. I also very much appreciate Marc’s comment about “gray.” There is a great deal I wish to say but am unable to do so here.
View ArticleBy: Ed Lay
Rather than gray, I see swirls of black and white, gray only from a distance; If there is so much more black than we knew at the time, the white is undimmed by it, though in no way does it excuse or...
View ArticleBy: Evan Rosen
I’ve been digging through boxes in my garage for Jerome Slote’s 1976 HM Record story about drug use on campus. This story earned Jerome and Charlie Varon, the Record’s editor, suspensions. The...
View ArticleBy: SKMurphy, Inc. » Quotes For Entrepreneurs–July 2013
[...] “Look around. Find the stories that are the ones that one day, you’re going to wish somebody had told sooner. Tell them.” Scott Rosenberg (@scottros) in Missed stories: About that Horace Mann...
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