American - Journalist | April 14, 1936 -
When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.
Robert Scheer
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What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
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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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We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
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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 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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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
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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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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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So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.
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