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.
peoplepoliticssilencetheend
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.
numberspeoplequalitythetimestime
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.
peoplerightswar
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.
languagepeople
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
communitypeoplerights
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.
moneypeople
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
money
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
war
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
government
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.
examplemindqualityteststhetimestime
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
thetimestime
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
history