In the Reagan days, political reporters made dumb comments and showed their bias in the privacy of the newsroom. Now they do it on Twitter.
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WHY POLITICAL REPORTERS SHOULD STICK TO REPORTING
JANUARY 2, 2016
By Jack Limpert
Fifty years ago I was editing a group of weekly papers in San Jose, California, and our political reporter wasn’t shy about his liberal tendencies. The then-governor was Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat too moderate and boring for our political reporter.
At one point our reporter said he hoped Brown would lose in November to his Republican opponent, a movie actor. “That guy will be such as disaster that next time we’ll be able to elect a real liberal.”
Yeah, the movie actor was Ronald Reagan, who easily won that election in 1966, was re-elected in 1970, and went on…
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