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Article: Today's journalists don't know Jack--but ought to.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- December 19, 2005
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Byline: Julia Keller
Dec. 19--God invented irony to keep the world interesting.
Just as the news was breaking that President Bush had unilaterally authorized wiretaps on Americans--the kind of story that would've been catnip to a Jack Anderson--the latter, a legendary investigative reporter, died Saturday at 83.
No matter what you think of Bush's actions, the revelation about official eavesdropping was a scoop, the kind of scoop that used to show up in Anderson's newspaper column with a regularity that distressed the mighty and delighted the ordinary citizen.
He was a giant. His star faded in recent years, but there was a time when ...