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 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. When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.
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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
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The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
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We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It`s just garbage. It`s insulting to the readers.
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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.
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And new people come in, and it doesn`t go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can`t silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
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What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
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Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.
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For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.
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The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
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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.
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I teach at USC, and it`s obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don`t cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
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I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn`t look at his watch, and he didn`t allow his campaign aides to cut it off.
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They know I have a strong - not only that I have a strong relation to readers, but so did Ramirez, the cartoonist. You know, it`s just gibberish.
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So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he`s a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn`t stand a word that I wrote.
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Sometimes Bill O`Reilly would sometimes go after me every day, and this went on for the last couple of years, and I`m still standing.
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Even with the best of intentions, even when they`re very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn`t seem to matter.
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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
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What they are interested in at the L.A. Times is profits, and then when it`s convenient to them, they wave the flag of free press.
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I was able to do something that people can`t do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
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It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
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I`ve been with the paper for almost 30 years.
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They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don`t have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
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All they are proving is their ability to manipulate, to think superficially, and to exploit national security issues rather than deal with them.
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I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.
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I have broken a lot of stories.
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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.
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Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O`Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
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Trivia
Scheer was raised in the Bronx, where he attended public schools and graduated from City College of New York. He studied as a Maxwell fellow at Syracuse University and was a fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley, where he did graduate work in economics. Scheer is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. He has also been a Poynter fellow at Yale, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford.
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Scheer can be heard on the political radio program "Left, Right and Center" on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, and elsewhere.
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Teaches "Media & Society" as a professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California.
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Has edited several publications, including, in the investigative magazine Ramparts in the `60s, and the online magazines Online Journalism Review and (currently) Truthdig.com.
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Has authored seven books, the most recent being "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq" (co-author) and "Playing President," a collection of his interviews with five U.S. Presidents: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Some of his earlier books include, "Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power," "With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War," and "America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals.".
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Came to work for the Los Angeles Times as a national correspondent in the mid-1970s. There he met his future wife, then-reporter Narda Zacchino. In the mid-90s he became a weekly columnist for the paper and continued in that role until 2006, when the Times canceled the column. The weekly column is now published by the San Francisco Chronicle every Wednesday.
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Born in NYC
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