Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that if you are running for the most powerful job in the world, you must first prove that you can tell a joke? "All candidates look like good guys if they kid around a bit," says Columnist Art Buchwald. Robert Orben, a political gagwriter in Washington, says a sense of humor "is one of the attributes a candidate must have. The good will engendered by humor goes a long way in covering his gaffes." And so Senator John Glenn pokes fun at his lack of pizazz: "Let me say that I am not dull." One, two, three. ''Boring...
...Judge is not a conceptual thinker. When he discusses the importance of Central America, it is not in geopolitical terms. The danger, he says, is that a Communist takeover would send a flood of refugees over the Southern border that would cost the U.S. millions of dollars. Conservative Columnist William Safire calls Clark "living proof that still waters can run shallow...
...accepted "rules of hygiene" for the press in these matters were set down by Walter Lippmann, the most widely respected columnist of his day, in a 1964 television interview: "Newspapermen can't be the cronies of great men. There always has to be a certain distance between high public officials and newspapermen. I wouldn't say a wall or a fence, but an air space, that's very necessary." Of course, Lippmann never practiced what he preached. As the personal acquaintance of twelve Presidents, Lippmann was the leading exemplar of what Columnist Colgman McCarthy calls "hobnobbery journalism...
...journalists to do what one John Gunther did some 40 years ago in Inside U.S.A. Gunther's book is clearly the model for Neal Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom's Bunyanesque effort to package the long-and shortcomings of each state in one readable volume. Peirce, a syndicated columnist, and Hagstrom, both editors of the Government affairs weekly National Journal, offer a mint of trivia: the country's longest front porch is at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Georgia leads in poultry production; Louisiana is first in frogs' legs...
McMullan was also instrumental in expanding the Herald's staff to reflect the strong ethnic diversity of Miami's community: without a single black staffer 15 years ago, the Herald now has 20 black reporters, a black editor and a black columnist. Even greater strides have been made toward the city's Latin population. The Herald is the only large metropolitan newspaper in the country to publish a daily Spanish edition (circ. 66,000). There are two Latin columnists and 40 staff members, including a member of the editorial board, to help cover the city...