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I have broken a lot of stories  (Robert Scheer Quotes) I’ve been with the paper for almost 30 years  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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 Quotes) The journalist’s job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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.  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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.  (Robert Scheer Quotes) The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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  (Robert Scheer Quotes) The journalist’s job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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  (Robert Scheer Quotes) Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money  (Robert Scheer Quotes) 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  (Robert Scheer Quotes)