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Article: William F. Buckley Jr.: An appreciation.(The Heritage Foundation)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 10, 2000
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A media giant is leaving the national stage _ and few have noticed.
Dan Rather? Ted Turner? Rupert Murdoch? Try William F. Buckley Jr., author, columnist, magazine founder, host of one of television's longest-running talk shows _ and a man whose impact on the media is almost as large as his celebrated vocabulary.
Buckley was first in many areas and inspired a generation _ my generation _ to follow in his footsteps. Thanks to Buckley, who in 1955, when he introduced National Review, showed America there was a market for thoughtful conservative ideas, we now have a lively array of policy journals, from The American Spectator and The Weekly Standard to ...