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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
Last week I reported associate publisher Ed McCarrick's view
of TIME's role in the media environment of the '90s: "We help make
the country's perceptions happen." This week we have an example.
During a campaign in which the voters are giving every sign of
being sick of sound bites and slogans, we persuaded the two
leading Democratic contenders for the presidency to pause for
an hour between their finger pointing and photo opportunities
and sit down for an exclusive sleeves-up, statistics-rich duel
over their economic prescriptions for the country.
Getting both Democrats to the table at the Butler Aviation
facility in Chicago took the political sophistication of a
campaign-trail veteran like columnist Michael Kramer. The result
was a summit that chief of correspondents John Stacks believes
is unprecedented in the age of television. "I cannot think of
a comparable situation where two leading candidates agreed to
devote this much time and depth debating each other for print,"
says Stacks.
The debate was moderated by Kramer and Stacks and was
attended by editor in chief Jason McManus, Washington bureau
chief Stan Cloud, Nation-section editor Jack White, contributor
Larry Barrett and senior writer Walter Shapiro. With the help
of editorial assistant Lina Lofaro, who gathered the material,
Kramer reviewed the candidates' positions.
"We arranged it so that our role was minimal," he says,
"allowing them to really go after each other on the issues." The
two men rarely locked eyes until the last two minutes, when
Tsongas challenged Clinton to pull his negative ads.
Afterward, both Democrats agreed to pose for the cover
picture by portraitist Gregory Heisler. But even then the
competition was calling. As the camera clicked, a Tsongas aide
could be heard outside yelling, "You may be making art in there,
but we got to make some politics out there."
-- Elizabeth P. Valk