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...This graceful admission raises an obvious question: If Ellis, who has worked as a political journalist for the better part of 25 years, understood the ethical dilemma inherent in a candidate's family member writing an opinion column, how could he not grasp the colossal unseemliness in a candidate's cousin declaring a winner in a national election? And how could Fox permit such a blatant conflict of interest, even if, as it says, it didn't know of Ellis's contact with his cousins on election night...
...This graceful admission raises an obvious question: If Ellis, who has worked as a political journalist for the better part of 25 years, understood the ethical dilemma inherent in a candidate's family member writing an opinion column, how could he not grasp the colossal unseemliness in a candidate's cousin declaring a winner in a national election? And how could Fox permit such a blatant conflict of interest, even if, as it says, it didn't know of Ellis's contact with his cousins on election night...
...press secretary was "telling the truth slowly." It's a lovely phrase, Mike, but untrue. Spinning is selling a version of events that you want others to believe rather than the version that you know to be true. In my book, that's lying. It's telling a journalist that, no, that incredibly lame answer the candidate gave in the debate about Social Security--to which you privately said to yourself, "Where the hell did that come from?"--was exactly what we wanted to say. Which leads me to Rule...
DIED. ROBERT CORMIER, 75, writer, editor; in Boston. An award-winning journalist, Cormier wrote the acclaimed, controversial 1974 young-adult novel The Chocolate War, listed as one of the books most frequently banned in schools...
...Jersey suburbs who majored in social studies at Wesleyan University, he was inspired by his father, a florist who "worked seven days a week until I was 15." This is O'Shea's first gig as a businessman; he still speaks like the cautious, probing technology journalist he once was. Maybe that's the key to winning investors: talk softly and carry a big idea. Or maybe it's just old-economy work ethic...