Charles Rappleye

Radical and Real

Charles Rappleye
The Weekly was launched in 1978, but it was born of the Vietnam War. The cultural and political landscape had been polarized by Vietnam, and for boomer babies coming of age, the "enemy" was easy to identify: cops and the military, squares and rednecks, the political and financial establishments. The......
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Charles Rappleye
These days it's CNN's Tailwind retraction, the Cincinnati Enquirer's $10 million Chiquita apology and the Boston Globe's scorched-earth campaign against its columnists. But the opening date of the current season of press second-guessing and recrimination might best be pegged to August 1996 and the publication, in the San Jose Mercury......