Joe Territo writes about the retirement of one of the more productive - and controversial - journalists of recent times, Jack Anderson. Anderson’s column, “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” had run in the Washington Post for decades, and was instrumental in covering many scandals and happenings inside of D.C. When Anderson ended his run just over a week ago, it was, as the Post describes, “the end of an era,” for he was “the last of the old-fashioned muckrakers.”
For Territo, who worked for Anderson over a decade ago, this marks a time when “journalism is sanitized,” leaving him to “long for old-fashioned, Anderson-style dirt digging.” As self serving as Anderson might have been, it’s probably not an unfortunate request to make.
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1 Georgetown Jeff // Jul 31, 2004 at 3:35 pm
Jack Anderson committed treason back in the 1970s by revealing the names and locations of real undercover CIA agents. I find it very illuminating that the left-wing press celebrates him while it is in a big huff over the nonscandal of Bob Novak disclosing the name of a desk employee named Valerie Plame whom everyone (including me) knew was a CIA employee.
She’s never been a target while Anderson likely did get people killed. As someone who hates leaks of any kind, I don’t like what Novak did but Anderson is scum, pure and simple.