Arthur Richman (c. 1925 – March 25, 2009) was an American baseball sportswriter in New York City at a newspaper who become a sports executive, working in the front office of both the New York Mets and New York Yankees .
27-469: He was hired by the New York Daily Mirror in 1942, starting as a copy boy. He worked his way up the ladder, becoming a baseball reporter, writing a popular column called "The Armchair Manager". After the paper closed as a result of the 1962 New York City newspaper strike , Richman was hired by the nascent New York Mets , initially as director of promotions, and later publicity director. He became
54-536: A combination of both. In contemporary times, exposure of a scandalous situation is often made by mass media . Contemporary media has the capacity to spread knowledge of a scandal further than in previous centuries and public interest has encouraged many cases of confected scandals relating to well-known people as well as genuine scandals relating to politics and business. Some scandals are revealed by whistleblowers who discover wrongdoing within organizations or groups, such as Deep Throat ( William Mark Felt ) during
81-537: A damaging status of corporate Japan, Woodford, in his memoirs has said: "I thought I was going to run a health-care and consumer electronics company, but found I had walked into a John Grisham novel." Since the development of printing , the media has had greater power to expose scandals and since the advent of mass media, this power has increased. The media also has the capacity to support and/or oppose organizations and destabilize them thereby becoming involved in scandals themselves as well as reporting them. Following
108-534: A list of candidates to succeed Buck Showalter , Richman included Sparky Anderson , Davey Johnson , Tony La Russa and Joe Torre . Anderson was happily retired at the time, and Johnson and La Russa were about to sign contracts with the Baltimore Orioles and St. Louis Cardinals , respectively. Richman had known Torre from his time at the Mets when Torre was leading the team from the dugout. Newspapers were critical of
135-459: A scandal. Academic dishonesty, also referred to as academic misconduct, is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. Although in the early part of the 19th century held the view that scandal does not mix with literature and science, some opined that a scattering of some amount of scandal in literature could enhance interest of people as scandal suits "the taste of almost every palate." Scandal, has however, been
162-421: Is scandalized when it becomes aware of breaches of moral norms or legal requirements, often when these have remained undiscovered or been concealed for some time. Such breaches have typically erupted from greed , lust , or the abuse of power . Scandals may be regarded as political, sexual, moral, literary, or artistic, but often spread from one realm into another. The basis of a scandal may be factual or false, or
189-782: The Daily News . On January 4, 1971, publisher Robert W. Farrell revived the New York Daily Mirror in name only, as a tabloid, published in Long Island City, Queens . Operating on a shoestring budget, the paper faced obstruction from the Daily News (from whom it had acquired the Daily Mirror name rights after the Daily News let them lapse). This new iteration of the Daily Mirror ceased publication on February 28, 1972. Scandal A scandal can be broadly defined as
216-584: The Daily Mirror , such as Ring Lardner, Jr. , Hy Peskin and the political commentator Drew Pearson . The poet-songwriter Nick Kenny was the paper's radio editor, and Edward Zeltner contributed a column. The gossip columnist Walter Winchell and managing editor Emile Gauvreau were both hired away from the New York Evening Graphic , the city's third sensational tabloid. Winchell was given his own radio show and syndicated, in his prime—the 1940s and early 1950s—in more than 2000 daily papers. During
243-548: The Mirror to an associate in 1928, only to buy it back in 1932. Hearst hired Philip Payne away from the Daily News as managing editor of the Mirror . Payne's circulation building stunts ranged from reviving the sensational Hall-Mills murder case to sponsoring and being a passenger on the Old Glory , transatlantic flying record attempt, in which he was killed. Early on, several bright young writers and photographic journalists joined
270-533: The Watergate scandal in the 1970s in the United States. Whistleblowers may be protected by laws which are used to obtain information of misdeeds and acts detrimental to their establishments. However, the possibility of scandal has always created a tension between society's efforts to reveal wrongdoing and its desire to cover them up, and the act of covering up (or indeed of revealing) a contentious situation may become
297-655: The William Randolph Hearst organization as a contrast to their mainstream broadsheets , the Evening Journal and New York American , later consolidated into the New York Journal American . It was created to compete with the New York Daily News which was then a sensationalist tabloid and the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States. Hearst preferred the broadsheet format and sold
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#1733092751041324-406: The 1950s generated "hypnotic intensity" among viewers and contestants. The CBS Television show The $ 64,000 Question which started on 7 June 1955 and such other shows as The Big Surprise , Dotto, Tic Tac Dough , and Twenty One became the most publicized quiz shows, but soon generated scandals after a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows conspired with
351-596: The Fence by Herman Rosenblat and A Memoir of the Holocaust Years by Misha Defonseca, were found to be based on false information, while a prize won by novelist Helen Darville created a scandal in 1994 around the author's fraudulently claimed ancestry. A political scandal occurs when political corruption or other misbehavior is exposed. Politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices. A political scandal can involve
378-500: The US Congress ruled rigging a quiz show a federal crime. A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about possibly-immoral sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with sexual affairs of film stars , politicians , famous athletes and others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the person involved, perceptions of hypocrisy on their part, or
405-554: The Watergate scandal in the United States, other English-speaking countries have borrowed the suffix "gate" and added it to scandals of their own. Journalistic scandals relate to high-profile incidents or acts, whether done purposefully or by accident. It could be in violation of normally in vogue ethics and standards of journalism . It could also be in violation of the 'ideal' mission of journalism : to publish "news events and issues accurately and fairly." The American quiz show of
432-423: The breaking of the nation's laws or moral codes and may involve other types of scandal. In 2012, Michael Woodford who successfully steered Olympus, a Japanese company to fame, turned a whistleblower when even as a CEO of the firm, he exposed the financial scandal worth $ 1.7 billion and fled Japan fearing for his life. Though persecuted his revelations proved to be true resulting in booking the culprits. Portraying
459-551: The choice of Torre, who had won only one pennant in his prior 14 years as manager, and after Steinbrenner saw the printed comments, he asked Richman "Do you know what you're doing?"; he responded "If I don't, fire me". In a statement released after Richman's death, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner described how "Arthur Richman made baseball and the New York Yankees an enormous part of his life, and I am grateful for his contributions both personally and professionally" noting that he
486-534: The decade's celebrities like Rudolph Valentino , Babe Ruth and Charles A. Lindbergh . By the 1930s, the Daily Mirror was one of the Hearst Corporation 's largest papers in terms of circulation. However, the paper never became a significantly profitable property as its earnings were mostly destined to support the company's faltering afternoon papers, and in its later years it declined substantially despite numerous efforts to turn things around. Despite having
513-519: The fight against drugs in sports", has showed that bribery, doping by athletes and doping sample-tampering, have occurred in collusion with national and international sporting organizations. Some consider that doping is "now endemic" in the world of sport and is becoming extremely pervasive, including more and more sports. One of the biggest individual scandals flowed from revelations that former American road cycling champion Lance Armstrong had achieved success by consistent, long-term cheating. One of
540-490: The non- normative or non- consensual nature of their sexual activity. A sex scandal may be based on reality, the product of false allegations, or a mixture of both. A desire for success and financial gain or the abuse of power in sport have also created many scandals both at an individual and the organisational level. Scandals arising from corruption have an impact of the credibility of sport. The World Anti-Doping Agency , as part of its role to "promote, coordinate and monitor
567-598: The second-highest daily circulation of an American newspaper at the time, the Daily Mirror closed in 1963, after the 114-day 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike (which also contributed to the death of the Herald Tribune , the Journal-American and the World-Telegram and Sun ). On October 16, 1963, the Daily Mirror published its last issue. The Daily Mirror name rights were at that point acquired by its rival
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#1733092751041594-404: The show's producers to rig the outcome. The quiz show scandals were driven by a drive for financial gain, a willingness of contestants to "play along" with the assistance, and the lack of regulation prohibiting the rigging of game shows. In October 1958, a New York grand jury was instituted by prosecutor Joseph Stone and the matter was examined with recording of closed-door testimony. Following this,
621-399: The strong social reactions of outrage, anger, or surprise, when accusations or rumours circulate or appear for some reason, regarding a person or persons who are perceived to have transgressed in some way a social norm . These reactions are usually noisy and may be conflicting, and they often have negative effects on the status and credibility of the persons or organizations involved. Society
648-459: The subject of many books. Among the most famous of fictional stories about scandal are School for Scandal (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne . Literary scandals result from some kind of fraud; either the authors are not who they say they are, or the facts have been misrepresented or they contain some defamation of another person. For example, two books by Holocaust survivors , Angel at
675-595: The team's traveling secretary in 1980 and served in that post until 1988 after making remarks critical of players regarding the share of postseason monies that he was allocated by players. In a 1994 interview, he stated that Nelson Doubleday, Jr. , then an owner of the team, had made anti-Semitic statements in his presence. He was hired by the New York Yankees as their vice president of media relations in May 1989, replacing Harvey Greene. Asked by George Steinbrenner to prepare
702-461: The three tabloids' 1920s circulation war, management of the Mirror estimated that its content was 10% news and 90% entertainment. For example, the Mirror and Graphic both had devoted substantial resources to the exploitation of scandal with repeated stories on such events as the divorce trial of real estate tycoon Edward West "Daddy" Browning who at age 51 had married 16-year-old Frances Belle "Peaches" Heenan , as well as constant coverage of
729-642: Was "someone the world of baseball will find impossible to replace". His brother, Milton Richman , was also a sportswriter, and was inducted into the Writers' Wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1981. His brother died in 1986. Richman died in his sleep at age 83 on March 25, 2009. New York Daily Mirror The New York Daily Mirror was an American morning tabloid newspaper first published on June 24, 1924, in New York City by
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