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Kenneth R. Walker, an independent television producer and columnist, is a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...mogul and co-founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, is a fan, sort of. "Real passion is at such a premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood for has collapsed into...
...Guatemala as well as her father's Peasant Unity Committee but has neither backed nor denounced the rebels and their use of violence. Before the prize was announced, a military - spokesman argued that giving it to her "would be a political victory for the guerrillas." On the contrary, wrote columnist Alfonso Portillo in the daily Siglo 21, "she makes those who are guided by hate, racism, selfishness and stupidity tremble...
Isaacson's talk was punctuated by interjections from several scholars and journalists. The ad hoc panel included Walburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, Edward R. Murrow, Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy Marvin L. Kalb, and New York Times columnist J. Anthony Lewis...
...truth, journalists are rarely loyal ideologues. Says syndicated columnist Richard Cohen: "Liberal or conservative, a reporter is a primitive being who would go after his own mother if he thought that was a good story." Some of the toughest stories about Clinton have emerged from the liberal New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Bush's two most ferocious critics, syndicated columnists William Safire of the New York Times and George Will of the Washington Post, are staunch members of his own party. That summarizes the deepest objection most politicians have to journalists -- not that they are liberal, nor that...