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Robert Scheer

American Journalist

Born: Apr 14, 1936

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We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. Robert Scheer

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. Robert Scheer

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When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him. Robert Scheer

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Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. Robert Scheer

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The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative. Robert Scheer

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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. Robert Scheer

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That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. Robert Scheer

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So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote. Robert Scheer

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Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. Robert Scheer

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I've been with the paper for almost 30 years. Robert Scheer

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For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. Robert Scheer

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And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there. Robert Scheer

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