Robert Scheer Quotes

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• The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I…
• What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
• 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…
• When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.
• 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 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…
• 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…
• The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
• 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…
• The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell…
• The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
• The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to…
• Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
• I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.
• I have broken a lot of stories.
• 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…
• And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from…
• Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't…
• For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had…
• I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch,…

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