#al

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#book #commentary #disappointed #front #happened

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#call #criticize #figures #just #news

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #anything #big #big issue #chicago

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#always #been #paper #part #role

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#bunch #clinton #great #had #i

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#i #pulitzer #reporter

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#candidates #constituencies #groups #interest #money

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#appeal #becoming #been #certain #certain ways

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#failed #federal #federal government #government #his

What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#being #better #call #congressman #everybody