The Press: Flight from Fluff

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Despite retreats like the Republic's, the trend seems clearly in the other direction. As Washington Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman sees it: "The women's section is the part of the paper that isn't tied to inherited ideas of what an event is"; it is attracting a number of good new journalists, both men and women. Von Hoffman himself specially requested that his own freewheeling column run in the "Style" section of the Post, as did Humorist Art Buchwald. Said Von Hoffman: "People read the women's page far oftener than the editorial page, where our big hitters hold forth."