Globe-Times book stops the presses, Author is told
by Mike Frassinell

Now that he is caught amid a debate with Lehigh University over unpopular passages in a finished but unreleased book, the Bloomsburg University Journalism professor might soon be able to use a personal example in his classes.

The 50-year-old author said Lehigh, leery of repercussions from future donors, wants to quash an in-depth book he wrote about the demise of The Globe Times of Beth1eham.

"Betrayed: Death of An American Newspaper,"had been edited, complimented by three reviewers and approved by the board at Associated University Presses, a Cranberry, N.J., consortium that includes publishing factions from Lehigh and similar eastern universities.

A contract was signed last year, and the book, already listed for sale in academic catalogs, was set for release Dec. 1.

The 400-plus-page work was the result of more than 250 interviews with Globe-Times workers and community members, mornings and evenings spent at a home computer and at least 20 visits to the Lehigh Valley during five years of research.

But sometime between the contract signing and the writing of the index for the 125,000-word tome, Brasch found out that his 10th book would be delayed.

Lehigh University officials complained that the book - initially entitled, "We're Management; We Don't Have to Tell You Anything: Restructuring of an American Newspaper"- was sensationalistic."

University higher-ups, Brasch was told, were worried that the book would offend the Globe-Times Taylor family, a potential future donor to Lehigh.

Selections of this book:

Prologue
Acknowledgements
Introduction