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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.
- Robert Scheer
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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.
- Robert Scheer
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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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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.
- Robert Scheer
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