I fear what would have happened if I’d walked up to the editors in my first newsroom and told them I was filing a nuanced story. This was over 40 years ago, and odds are that a curmudgeonly copy editor — the one we relied on to make up for all our grammar, spelling and …
Sleeves rolled up, momentarily without a cigar in his mouth, that is John R. Bott, late editor of The New Mexican and former city editor of the New York Post, reaching for the phone and growling orders as he makes sure the paper gets out in Santa Fe in 1974. Mr. Bott — and I …
