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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.
As for Ms. ' political coverage, crusades heavy on symbolism preoccupied the staff through the 1970s (the ERA, the Houston conference).
Other papers fear controversy; he proposes newspaper "crusades."
(Whereas Gear, which retains certain elements of the old men's mag ethos, and the old hostility--and not incidentally runs somewhat longer articles--does worry about and argue with feminism, as in its recent piece on sexual repression in the military, in which it is argued, after a fashion, that 1) we can't suppress male soldiers' urge to rape and harass women without suppressing the urge to kill that's the military's reason for being, 2) sexual harassment crusades interfere with women's equality, 3) women soldiers aren't men's equals anyway, and 4) why do we need women in the military in the first place?)
Two, as you indicate, "alternative" newspapers have been thriving, many for decades, by providing readers with exactly the kind of service Rosen says he wants: reporting with perspective; reader inclusion; making stories into crusades; etc.