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Article: He likes Ike? Robert Scheer looks left, right, and center.(Q&A)(Interview)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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IN MANY WAYS, ROBERT SCHEER'S CAREER ENCAPSULATES THE LONG MARCH of progressive journalism in postwar America. After an early stint at Ramparts, he moved from Playboy to the Los Angeles Times (from which he was defenestrated in 2005, after nearly three decades at the paper). More recently, he has co-founded an online magazine, Truthdig.com, and published a collection of interviews, Playing President: My Close Encounters With Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush (2006), as well as The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (2008). In a conversation with CJR'S James Marcus, the ...
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Article: Robert SCHEER Saving Private Lynch, take two
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... ... of "saving Private Lynch" were to be honestly presented, it would expose this caper as merely one in a series of egregious lies marketed to us by the Bush administration. Robert Scheer writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times.
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