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...though Alter says that “most of us thought that Mark would become a professor like his parents,” both of them—along with Whitaker’s former roommate and current editor of the online edition of Newsweek, Joe Contreras—comped The Crimson at the same time, went into journalism shortly after college and never left the newsroom...
...grew up in the Barrio in Los Angeles,” Alter remembers. “He showed up to The Crimson comp sessions with hair down the middle of his back, wearing a white t-shirt, a pack of cigarettes in one hand and in the other he’d be clutching a copy of The New Republic...
...being a columnist is that you need to believe that people can benefit from your opinion every week—Jon has that, he takes himself very seriously. But,” Whitaker adds, laughing, “There’s nobody in the world who deflates Alter like Contreras, and then Jon will dig himself even deeper, and Contreras will get even more irreverent...
...thing that Mark, Joe and I all had in common on the Crimson is that we didn’t take major positions, which I think helped because we didn’t get burned out on journalism,” Alter adds. “At some point, I just didn’t want to be there every night,” Alter says...
...Still, Alter and Whitaker both have fond memories of The Crimson, the place which helped launch them into journalism...