Pulitzer - Winning Columnist (Jack) Anderson Dies

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Obit-Jack-Anderson.html

December 17, 2005
Pulitzer - Winning Columnist Anderson Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:00 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83.

Anderson died at his home in Bethesda, Md., of complications from Parkinson's disease, said one of his daughters, Laurie Anderson-Bruch.
...That's the whole article as of now on AP ...

A few more Jack Andersons and a few less Larry King's and maybe we wouldn't be in this mess!

:-(

Which should go to show that you can be a fairly conservative religious personality while being a reporter who still questions the motives and actions of government.

I remember when "Good Morning America" first started and Jack was on it. I always liked him. A great guy.

His brand of muckraking will be missed.

lessons did not stick!

But let's not forget that he was the one who "outed" Thomas Eagleton for getting shock therapy for depression.

Anderson kicked the Democratic Party in the stomach when he reported the bogus drunk driving arrests.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/eagleton.htm

He was, from time to time, a muckraker of muckrakers.

Watergate. If only someone would stand up and take your place.

RIP, Jack. :cry:

We certainly need one.... or more.
The media has lost another true voice.
What a great writer and REAL journalist.

but Jack Anderson deserves just as much credit as W&B. Maybe even more because he didn't just write about Watergate. It seems like there was hardly a day that went by back then that Jack Anderson didn't have some big expose on the corruption in the Nixxxon administration. Jack Anderson was a great journalist the likes of which we haven't seen since. I sorely wish for another Jack Anderson these days.

Anderson was a great man that contributed to keeping America free in the face of RW fascism. It's no small coincidence that many of the RW fascists in power right now were underlings in the Nixxxon administration. The bastards in power today are the same people we fought in the late 60's and early 70's.

What was the name of his actually non-existent associate? Dale Van Atta or something like that?

Gene McCarthy, Richard Pryor, Leo from "West Wing", and now Jack Anderson. Wow.

the Big Oil/Big Automotive conspiracy to destroy public transport in the United States and force us into total dependence on the automobile -- to hell with the people who couldn't afford automobiles. The conspiracy had been thoroughly revealed via extensive Congressional hearings during the late 1940s -- hearings which mass media (already ruled by automotive industry advertising dollars) mostly suppressed. But Anderson got the hearing transcripts and started writing about the conspiracy in the context of the fuel crises of the '70s: how America once had public transportation at least as good as Europe's, how it was destroyed and the nation made vulnerable in the name of obscene profits, and how now the chickens were coming home to roost. A lot of newspapers suppressed those columns because -- you guessed it -- the Detroit car dealers protested. Rest in peace, Jack: you did a damn fine job.

I wish my generation had produced an Anderson, but it has excelled instead at creating pundits--McGasbags to go with the McNews.

AP) Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83.

Anderson died at his home in Bethesda, Md., of complications from Parkinson's disease, said one of his daughters, Laurie Anderson-Bruch.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/17/national/main1134705.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=U.S._1134705

RIP.

...he got the Dita Beard memos, which plainly showed that ITT had been solicited for a boatload of money to finance the GOP convention in return for having a lawsuit by the feds dropped.
It was a huge scandal until Watergate got going. It might have brought Nixon down on ihs own if Watergate hadn't come along.

He kicked ass. rest in peace.

breaks about Bush having ordered spying on American Citizens!

I can only imagine the articles that Jack Anderson could have written at this time...

Our nation needs many Jack Anderson's right now.... :patriot: