Edith Efron

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Edith Efron
Born1922
Died(2001-04-20)April 20, 2001
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
Notable worksHow CBS Tried to Kill a Book

Edith Efron (/ˈɛfrən/; 1922 – April 20, 2001) was an American journalist and author.

Biography

Efron was born in New York.

The Objectivist, and presented a lecture series on non-fiction writing at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in the 1960s, although the two women later parted ways.[3][4]

She became a writer and, later, a senior editor of the widely circulated

Fairness Doctrine by the Federal Communications Commission
, in order to permit conservative viewpoints greater access to the airwaves. The FCC would remove the policy in the late 1980s.

In their 1993 history of TV Guide, Changing Channels: America in TV Guide, Cornell professors Glenn C. Altschuler and David I. Grossvogel have stated that "no writer...did more to shape TV Guide," a publication that reached over 40 million readers at the time. Her impact on the magazine, they said, included her role as "the quintessential TV Guide voice on race relations." All the positions she took on race in her articles, Efron is quoted as saying, "were determined by what I thought would be good for a young, vulnerable black child," a reflection of the issues which Efron herself had faced while bringing up a biracial son in the segregated America of the 1950s.[5]

In 1971, Efron published The News Twisters,

1968 U.S. presidential election, one of the first studies of its kind ever conducted. This was followed by her 1972 work, How CBS Tried to Kill a Book,[7]
an examination of CBS News's reaction to her study.

She was a contributing editor to

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The latter prompted Justice Thomas to declare that Efron had been the "only person" to understand what was going through his mind during the hearings that made him a household name, according to Reason editor Virginia Postrel.[8]

In 1984, Efron published The Apocalyptics,[9] described as "an exposé of shoddy science and its effects on environmental policy," which systematically examined the regulatory "science" behind the banning of chemicals in consumer products, debunking the alleged "cancer epidemic" claimed to exist by many in the media.

References

  1. ^ "Edith Efron". MyHeritage. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
  2. ISBN 978-0895266569
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  3. ISBN 978-0451231307
    (Ramrus worked with Efron on Wallace's staff).
  4. ^ "Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand". Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved May 4, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ISBN 978-0252017797
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  6. ISBN 978-0840212061
  7. ISBN 978-0840212801
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  8. ^ Postrel, Virginia. "The Woman Who Saw Through Walls". Archived from the original on November 29, 2001. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  9. ISBN 978-0671417437
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