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Article: The rise of the conservative voice: William Safire, George Will win Pulitzer Prizes for column-writing. ('78).(Brief Article)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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In 1974, shortly after Arthur O. Sulzberger hired a former Nixon speechwriter, William Safire, to write a column for The New York Times, the publisher received an irate letter from an exemployee, David Halberstam. "Safire is not a conservative in any true sense, never has been one, and he has not come up in any way through the editorial processes," Halberstam wrote. "Rather, he is a paid manipulator. He is not a man of ideas or politics but rather a man of tricks.... It's a lousy column and it's a dishonest one. So close it. Or you end up just as shabby as Safire." But Sulzberger stuck with Safire, and Halberstam eventually came around to the view that he was a worthy ...
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