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I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
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They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
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The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
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It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
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For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.
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Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
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The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
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That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
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When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.
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What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
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