David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism

[Denny Crane]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030902821.html?hpid=topnews

David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism

David S. Broder, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most respected writers on national politics for four decades, died Wednesday at Capital Hospice in Arlington of complications from diabetes.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I used to love reading him.

 

[barfo]

Interesting thread title. How exactly did Broder dying set the gold standard? Did he report "live" on his own death?

barfo

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Interesting thread title. How exactly did Broder dying set the gold standard? Did he report "live" on his own death?

barfo

Now, now, barfo, let's not make fun of the dead.

 

[barfo]

Now, now, barfo, let's not make fun of the dead.

Did Denny die?




























How could you tell?

barfo

 

[MARIS61]

from wiki:
In May 2008, Broder accepted a buyout offer from The Washington Post Co., effective January 1, 2009, but continued to write his twice-weekly Post column as a contract employee. In a letter to the publications that run his column, Broder said: "This change will allow me to focus entirely on the column, while freeing up the Post to use its budget for other news-section salaries and expenses."

In June 2008, Ken Silverstein, a columnist at Harper's magazine alleged that Broder had accepted free accommodations and thousands of dollars in speaking fees from various business and healthcare groups, in one instance penning an opinion column supporting positions favored by one of the groups. Deborah Howell, The Washington Post's ombudsman at the time, wrote that Broder's acceptance of speaking fees appeared to be a violation of the paper's policy on outside speeches, as was the fact that some of the groups that paid Broder also lobby Congress. Howell pointed out that Broder said "he had cleared his speeches with Milton Coleman, deputy managing editor, or Tom Wilkinson, an assistant managing editor, but neither remembered him mentioning them."


I set my standards a bit higher than that, and I hope most journalists do too.

 

[Denny Crane]

Interesting thread title. How exactly did Broder dying set the gold standard? Did he report "live" on his own death?

barfo

That's Washington Post's title of their article.

 

[Denny Crane]

Did Denny die?




























How could you tell?

barfo

How can you tell when a politician is lying?

His lips are moving.