Word: columnists
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...panelists were: Mickey Edwards, Kennedy School of Government lecturer and a former U.S. representative; Leslie Gelb president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former New York Times columnist; Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a former U.S. representative and former NBC correspondent; and John Mashek, an official in the Department of Justice during Robert Kennedy's administration who now works as political correspondent for The Boston Globe and is an IOP fellow...
Harvard's Department of Government of Government has decided, with some noteworthy opposition among its faculty, to give columnist George Will an appointment to teach at the school. As a firm believer in the first Amendment and a strong advocate of giving students the opportunity to hear divergent voices on issues, I believe the Will appointment is okay. But Harvard ought to know a little more about Will's credentials...
...later learned that will had helped Reagan in the mock debate and then declared him the winner without ever disclosing his personal role in the debate. He even denied his role before Reagan's aides acknowledged it. Then, the columnist's view was that he was a writer of opinion, not a reporter, and therefore was operating under a different set of rules...
...case conservatives believe that serious journalists would not be agitated if a liberal columnist was involved in the mock debate episode, they are dead wrong. No political writer I know would give two seconds of though to an invitation by a candidate for president of either party to engage in debate preparation and then write that the favored candidate...
Alex Beam, a columnist for the Boston Globe,writes that Loupan's main theme is accurate, evenif number of details are wrong, in an op-ed piecepublished of February...