Word: columnists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
City Scribe. "Once you're a habit, you've got it made," says San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen. By that measure, the Sackamenna Kid, a bowdlerized self-reference to his Sacramento origins, has it made in three-dot spades: Caen's column has appeared in San Francisco for all but three of the past 46 years, and its six-day-a-week mix of gossipy tidbits, hand-me-down gag lines and occasional nuggets of hard news, all separated by three-dot ellipses, is the closest thing to universal wisdom in the variegated Bay Area...
This new breed, "the celebrity, the entertainer-turned-reporter, the politician-turned-columnist, the reporter who goes in and out of government," was not trained in political neutrality, as were earlier print, radio and television reporters. Many, he notes, even owe their original prominence to their political backgrounds: Jody Powell, Bill Moyers and Pierre Salinger were presidential press secretaries, and William Safire and Patrick Buchanan were Nixon speechwriters. Only Salinger and Buchanan had previously worked on newspapers. Bailey recalls the "spectacular stumble" of syndicated conservative Columnist George F. Will, who, when criticized for helping coach his friend Ronald Reagan...
...attitude is that if exceptions to journalistic norms are permitted, they should be accompanied by full "disclosure-relentless, repetitive, even boring." This seems a tiny answer to a large problem. He argues that disclaimers need Little space: "George Will was Legislative assistant to a Republican Senator before becoming a columnist." But how often should we be told that Diane Sawyer of CBS once worked in Nixon's press office...
...heart and diminishes his noble cause," wrote Timothy Hagan, co-chairman of Mondale's campaign in Ohio, in the Washington Post. "Jackson may have lost his moral compass ... A campaign for the presidency that apparently cannot distinguish between good and evil cannot command the respect it seeks." Wrote Columnist Jimmy Breslin: "All Jackson has to do is to condemn Farrakhan and walk away from him. And that will be the last time anybody will bother to report on what Farrakhan has to say. Yet Jackson says nothing." Breslin wondered whether Jackson was physically afraid of the "threatening, Jew-baiting...
...would have to increase its vigilance over abuses of Mexican citizens in the U.S. The reaction in the Mexican press was overwhelmingly hostile. "The insult inflicted on us by the U.S.," wrote Gonzalo Martre in the Mexico City daily El Universal, "has wounded our national honor." Gilberto Herrera, another columnist, accused the U.S. of being a bad neighbor and of forgetting how Mexican laborers came to the assistance of U.S. agriculture in World War II. Other press critics complained about Washington's refusal to ease trade restrictions while Mexico suffers its most severe economic crisis since the Depression, making...