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Article: Our publisher dictates from the "other side.".
- Article from:
- The Masthead
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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I work for the most demanding publisher in America.
He haunts me daily, molding my responses to developing issues, admonishing me to remain true to his dictates, guiding the very keystrokes with which I produce the editorials for what is most assuredly his newspaper.
My publisher is a brilliant yet eccentric thinker, at once skeptical and romantic. He is an absolutist for whom words such as "compromise" and "cooperation" are obscenities. He is quick to anger, slow to forget, disdainful of nuance, unmindful of accepted wisdom, and prone to viewing any form of moderation as a vice.
He is also dead.
William T. Evjue founded the newspaper ...