Word: germond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commentary is also distributed by the Post Group; Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair of Washington veterans whose six-month-old investigative column promises to match Jack Anderson scoop for scoop...
Thompson repeatedly argued that all lawyers should be castrated and most journalists locked up. Asked if there were any Washington reporters he read regularly. Thompson named, the Washington Post trio of David S. Broder, Jules Witcover, and Jack Germond, and called the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak the worst...
...record as a loser," Democrats of divergent political plumage leaped to Humphrey's defense. But when Edwin Muskie made a similar comment a week or so later, no one complained. In fact, Democrats seem so clearly to have declared an open season on Carter, writes Jack Germond, the Washington Star's chief political reporter, that the attacks by press and politicians are "perhaps unmatched in harshness and intensity in any presidential campaign of the postwar period...
...Germond's comparison is extravagant, but he is correct in noting that anti-Carter sentiment is widespread...
...newsmen, finding no openings around the breakfast table, have set up their own group in opposition. "We were really getting clobbered," recalls Jack Germond, Washington bureau chief for the Gannett newspapers. "So in self-defense we set up 'Political Writers for a Democratic Society.' We've had about eight or nine dinners, with people like Finch, Rogers Morton, Muskie...