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The ''Northern Virginia Sun'' was a newspaper published in Arlington, Virginia, until 1998. For much of its life, it was a six-day-a-week broadsheet, published Monday through Saturday, that emphasized local news.〔Scott McCaffrey, "The Sun Gazettes Have a Long and, Yes, Distinguished History in the Area." Sun Gazette, September 26, 2007. ()〕 Its legacy can be seen in the Arlington public library, which has maintained a collection of the Sun's "Then and Now" series about Arlington landmarks and history.〔(Arlington Public Library catalog, photograph collection )〕 These began appearing in the Sun in the 1950s and continued, on and off, through the 1980s. The ''Suns corporate descendant, Sun Gazette Newspapers, was sold to American Community Newspapers in 2005.〔Scott McCaffrey, "The Sun Gazettes Have a Long and, Yes, Distinguished History in the Area." Sun Gazette, September 26, 2007. ()〕 The Sun drew national attention in the late 1970s when owner Herman J. Obermayer said the Sun would print the name of accusers in rape cases that came to trial, out of a sense of "fairness" between the two sides.〔(Naming names ) Time Magazine, Jan. 30, 1978〕 ''Time magazine'' reported that Obermayer's policy was "hotly denounced by local feminists, police, prosecutors, hospital officials and nearly all the Sun readers who have written or telephoned Obermayer to comment." ''Time'' quoted Benjamin C. Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, as saying, "It’s wrong. It’s misguided. We wouldn’t do it."〔 == History == The Sun began as The Arlington Sun in the 1930s. In 1957, new owners renamed it the Northern Virginia Sun “and moved the entire operation into a former A&P supermarket” at 3409 Wilson Boulevard.〔Eleanor Lanahan, "Scottie: Daughter of." New York: Harper Collins, 1995, p. 224.〕 The new owners were mostly well-connected and well-off Democrats "who had fought shoulder to shoulder in the (E. ) Stevenson campaigns" in 1952 and 1956.〔James A. Bill, "George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy." Retrieved on April 30, 2010〕 The four principal partners were George W. Ball, later an under secretary of state in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations;〔Robert D. McFadden, "George W. Ball Dies at 84: Vietnam's Devil's Advocate," New York Times, May 28, 1994. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.〕 Philip M. Stern, a grandson of Sears, Roebuck chairman Julius Rosenwald and son of a president of New Orleans Cotton Exchange; Clayton Fritchey, a journalist and Democratic operative who, as a reporter for the Cleveland Press, had covered Eliot Ness’s campaign to root out police corruption in Cleveland;〔"Clayton Fritchey, 06, Reporter Who Worked in the Government," Washington Post, January 25, 2001. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.〕 and Arnold Sagalyn, who signed on as assistant publisher. Stern and Fritchey were alumni of the New Orleans Item, Fritchey’s next career stop after Cleveland. Fritchey had been the editor in New Orleans, Stern a reporter and editorial writer. Others backers of the Sun included Gilbert Hahn, a Republican who was heir to the Hahn shoe store empire and chairman of the D.C. City Council.〔Gilbert Hahn Hr., "The Notebook of an Amateur Politician (And How He Began the D.C. Subway). Lexington Books, 2002.〕 "The investment proved to be a disastrous mistake from the beginning," historian James A. Bill wrote.〔James A. Bill, "George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy." Yale University, 1997. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.〕 "Their dream was to turn (Sun ) into a suburban success like Newsday on Long Island, whose concentrated circulation and affluent readership had managed to scare the large New York City newspapers," the author Eleanor Lanahan wrote.〔Eleanor Lanahan, "Scottie: Daughter of." New York: Harper Collins, 1995, p. 224.〕 But the Washington dailies had deeper penetration in suburban Virginia than the New York dailies did and readers’ habits were changing as early-evening television news undercut afternoon newspapers like the Sun, which later billed itself as the "daily hometown newspaper of Arlington, Falls Church and Fairfax." Compounding the problem, Ball and the Sun’s new other owners—along with some of the reporters they hired—were outsiders. Fritchey, for example, lived in the Georgetown section of Washington and was a regular on the dinner-party circuit there, not in Arlington. One of the reporters was Frances Lanahan, the daughter of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. ”〔Eleanor Lanahan, "Scottie: Daughter of." New York: Harper Collins, 1995, p. 232.〕 “The staff … was young and underpaid,”〔Eleanor Lanahan, "Scottie: Daughter of." New York: Harper Collins, 1995, p. 225.〕 or worse, unsophisticated and unaware. The nationally syndicated columnist Drew Pearson ran an item about Fritchey in 1958 that did not reflect well on the Sun’s staff. Gov. W. Averell Harriman had called the Sun, looking for Fritchey. The person who took Harriman’s call did not know who Fritchey was.〔Drew Pearson, "Private Giveaway Charged," published in The Tuscaloosa News, March 30, 1958, p. 4. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19580330&id=sAYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-JkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7457,4173253. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.〕 By 1960, Fritchey left The Sun. "The paper had been losing money, and management decided that the readership had been too transient. Arlington was a temporary stop for airline stewardesses, Pentagon employees and foreign service people who had no investment in the schools as most of their children weren’t educated there. Too few residents of Northern Virginia were calling it a home. Also, the Sun had never been able to attract major advertisers. Supermarkets and department stores had concentrated on the wider circulation of the metropolitan papers. Compounding the problem, in 1960 the newspaper union went on strike for higher wages and selected the Sun, as one of the weaker papers, to make its point. (Sun ) brought in scabs, which was unsettling for the liberal, pro-union management, who had to cross their picket lines to get to work. The strike was so costly that it precipitated the sale of the paper."〔Eleanor Lanahan, "Scottie: Daughter of." New York: Harper Collins, 1995, pp. 238-239.〕 Ball's family "never forgot the enormity of the failure," according to historian James A. Bill. "Thirty years later, George would wince when the newspaper was mentioned. It was estimated that this white elephant cost George Ball half a million dollars."〔James A. Bill, "George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy." Yale University, 1997. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.〕 Bill estimated the Sun's quarterly loss at $100,000 in 1961, after Ball, Stern, Fritchey and Sagakyn had severed their ties to the Sun. Herman J. Obermayer, editor and publisher of the Long Branch Daily Record in New Jersey, bought the Sun in 1963〔“Arlington Paper Changes Owners,” Free-Lance Star, Feb. 5, 1963, p. 2.http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19630205&id=jesQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=84sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3020,2317620〕 and controlled it for 25 years. Like Stern and Fritchey, he was an alumnus of the New Orleans Item. He had worked there in the 1950s, as classified advertising manager. Obermayer, a decorated World War II veteran who had graduated from Dartmouth College, had begun his career as a reporter on the Long Island Daily Press in Queens, New York.〔Obermayer's entry in "Marquis Who's Who on the Web." http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/executable/SearchResults.aspx?db=E. Retriever on April 30, 2010.〕 In the early 1970s the Sun moved to a brick and concrete building at 1227 North Ivy Street. Vacated in 1990 when the paper was taken over by Sun Gazette Newspapers of Vienna, Va., the building is now a day care center.〔"Arkansas Gazette Project" interview with Carol Griffee, former Sun executive editor, Oct. 14, 2001. http://pryorcenter.uark.edu/projects/arkansasgazette/cgriffee.pdf. Retrieved on April 30, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northern Virginia Sun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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