Talk:Walter Winchell

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 124.168.95.20 in topic Never criticised publicly…?

Anti-vaccination warning

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Is Winchell's 1954 broadcast warning about the Salk vaccine noteworthy enough to merit inclusion in this article? Ishboyfay (talk) 05:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Added in the Ethical Failings section DougL (talk) 20:19, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Walter winchell

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He is the subject of a phone conversation in Tennessee Williams Sweet bird of youth 2600:8807:41C:CE00:8506:3C:680E:178C (talk) 13:07, 12 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Never criticised publicly…?

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‘No one had previously dared to criticize Winchell publicly, but by then his influence had eroded to the point that he could not effectively respond.’

St Clair McKelway’s New Yorker Profile of Winchell, ‘Gossip Writer’ published in six parts during June and July of 1940, trashed him mercilessly, in an urbane and disdainful style. Winchell was so furious he had New Yorker editor Harold Ross and his staff banned from The Stork Club, at the time New York’s most fashionable ‘nite-spot’, where Winchell was wont to hold court until 4.00 am. He never ceased attacking Ross in his columns until Ross’s death in 1951. Even while Ross was in hospital, dying of cancer, Winchell claimed Ross was in fact hiding out to avoid attending a divorce hearing.

See Kunkel’s ‘Genius in Disguise’, and McKelway’s ‘Reporting at Wit’s End.’ 124.168.95.20 (talk) 08:02, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply