Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newspaper columnist Jack Anderson will lecture on "News Behind the Headlines" at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1 in Emerson 205, in a talk sponsored by the Institute of Politics. The lecture will be free and open to the public...
Fourth estate fifth columnist...
...gate on Watergate, gave the front-page spotlight to Lance even on days when there was no story about him that deserved such treatment. There is a difference between pursuing the facts and going after a man. The end also did not ennoble William Safire, the Nixon speechwriter turned columnist who seeks to establish-with the repetitious use of labels like Lancegate -that all politicians are as shabby as Nixon. Cheap-shot comparisons are an old and dubious journalistic device: as if two people who share one trait can be said to share them all. New York magazine...
Safire joined the 1968 Nixon presidential campaign as a speechwriter, a job he retained when Nixon won. Nine months after the Watergate breakin, Safire left the White House and took a columnist's job at the New York Times. He had a previous offer from the Washington Post Co., but Publisher Arthur Sulzberger met him at a dinner in New York and made a higher bid-reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper...
...columnist occupies Wicker's old office at the paper's Washington bureau ("liberal ghosts in every corner"), but thinks up many of his columns at home, a 20-room, brick Colonial in Chevy Chase, Md. He lives there with his wife Helene, a former British model and pianist he met in New York in 1962, and their two children. Tall, relaxed and balding, Safire, 47, collects rare books and knows his way down a wine list. He batted out Full Disclosure in the mornings, without missing any of his twice-weekly columns. "This is my fifth book [first...