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Him all throughout. I love his humor. And i mentioned commonsense. Hes delightful. He always makes me laugh, even now, and ive been writing about them for about 25 years. What should occur to journalist take from his career . Well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. Also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. I think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. They dont have the time to do their research. Pages to the interview on to look it up quickly. He was always, as i say, putting the issue to the pavement. Always researching, al always gg out there and doing the interview. What do you think his impression would be of our current state of news in american . I think he would be very depressed. Very depressed. And i think he would be very saddened to see that print journalism is being subjugated by television and by the internet. [inaudible] why . Because as i mentioned earlier, i dont think peopl
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