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    • format_quote 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.
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    • stars  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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    • stars  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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    • stars  Teaches "Media & Society" as a professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California.
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    • stars  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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    • stars  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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    Christopher Scheer (born September 8, 1968) is the co-author, with Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq, published in 2003 in the U.S., England and Australia. The book appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and was a part of the national debate in 2004 about the then still popular Iraq War. In 2010, he received co-author credit on The Great American Stickup, which also appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.
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Robert Scheer
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Age89
Birthday 4 April, 1936
Birthplace The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Hair Color Grey
Zodiac Sign Aries
Nationality American
Occupation Journalist
Claim to Fame Ultraliberal newspaper columnist at the Los Angeles Times
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Robert Scheer (born April 4, 1936) is an American journalist who has written for Ramparts, the Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Truthdig, Scheerpost and other publications as well as having written many books. His column for Truthdig was nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation. He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Scheer is the former editor in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. For many years, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated political analysis radio program Left, Right & Center on National Public Radio (NPR), produced at public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for his column.

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