THE LINDA ELLERBEE AWARDS
FOR DISTINGUISHED REPORTING
The Best Notable Quotables of 1990
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
"This
is Marlboro country, southeastern Poland, a place where the transition
from communism to capitalism is making more people more miserable every
day....No lines at the shops now, but plenty at some of the first
unemployment centers in a part of the world where socialism used to
guarantee everybody a job."
-- CBS News reporter Bert Quint on the April
11 CBS Evening News.
Runners-Up:
"Communism is being
swept away, but so too is the social safety net it
provided....Factories, previously kept alive only by edicts from Warsaw,
are closing their doors, while institutions new to the East, soup
kitchens and unemployment centers are opening theirs...Here are the ones
who may profit from Poland’s economic freedom. A few slick locals, but
mostly Americans, Japanese, and other foreigners out to cash in on a new
source of cheap labor."
-- Reporter Bert Quint on CBS This Morning, May
9.
"These refugees have been told little about the realities of
life in the West, including the fact that some people sleep on the
street...They will soon learn that jobs are hard to find, consumer goods
expensive, relatives in Albania will be missed. Many refugees,
according to experts, will suffer from depression, and in some cases,
drug abuse."
-- ABC’s Mike Lee on what’s facing fleeing Albanians, July 14 World News Tonight.
Kevin Phillips Tax Fairness Award
"[C]ountless
liberal analysts over the last five years have documented time and
again how Reaganomics delivered a feast to the greedheads and starvation
to the poor....[The Gilded Age and The Roaring Twenties] were marked by
the same kinds of excesses as the 1980s -- gross concentrations of
wealth in the hands of a tiny privileged elite, achieved primarily by
deliberate Republican policies that left most Americans behind while
debt, greed, and conspicuous consumption soared out of control."
--
Robert Rankin, national economics correspondent for Knight-Ridder
Newspapers, in the July 22 Philadelphia Inquirer.
Runners-Up:
"For
ten years Ronald Reagan taught us there was a free lunch. Folks, he
said, we’re going to cut your taxes and we’re going to spend like
there’s no tomorrow and you don’t have to pay for it. Folks, we’re now
paying for it and it’s bitter medicine....we’re going to have to raise
taxes to get some sort of fairness here....For ten years the great
wizard sold us that idea, that we could grow our way out of the deficits
and we bought it, and we didn’t."
-- Sam Donaldson on This Week with
David Brinkley, October 7.
"The tax package hammered out last
weekend continues a Washington policy established in the Reagan era: It
takes a heavy bite out of the paychecks of working-class Americans."
-- Beginning of front page story by Boston Globe reporter Charles Stein, October 2.
Bring Back the Gas Lines Award
"We have
allowed this country to be held hostage by an industry that produces a
product vital to our national interests. This makes about as much sense
as having the military services or the nation’s water supply controlled
by private corporations....In the long run, what would make the most
sense would be to nationalize the oil industry to protect the economy."
-- Washington Post columnist Judy Mann, August 8.
Runner-Up:
"The
hottest new proposal was a broad-based tax on sources of energy --
gasoline, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. In all, it would raise
about $20 billion. Everybody seemed to agree it was a good idea except,
of course, the transporation lobby."
-- Unbylined box in Newsweek, July 16.
Damn Those Conservatives Award
"If you’re miffed
because the Cold War’s over, Ceaucescu’s dead, the Sandinistas lost the
election in Nicaragua and it seems like here’s no one around to hate any
more, then maybe The Hunt for Red October is just the thing....This is a
Reagan youth’s wet dream of underwater ballistics and East-West
conflict."
-- Washington Post film critic Desson Howe in the "Weekend"
section, March 2.
Runners-Up:
"In a year that has had some
of the dirtiest, the sleaziest, the most misleading ads ever, it’s hard
to pick the very worst, but here are a couple that the experts chose.
North Carolina’s Jesse Helms, who battled a black opponent, last week
overtly introduced the most divisive issue of the contest, race....The
truth is Gantt supported the vetoed civil rights bill which he argued
specifically warned against quotas."
-- ABC reporter Jackie Judd on
Nightline, November 6.
"What Helms has done is taken the words
‘North Carolina values’ -- a beautiful phrase that evokes the
small-town, good-hearted sense of place that one feels when one travels
the state -- and redefined them as the values belonging to a certain
group of North Carolinians, mostly white, mostly male, mostly unhappy
with the changes of the last 30 years. To Helms and his supporters,
‘North Carolina values’ seems to translate into a status quo view of the
world in which blacks, women, and poor people know their stations in
society."
-- Reporter Juan Williams in The Washington Post
Magazine,October 28.
"Are you not also in danger of people
looking at the Republican Party after this whole experience, and saying,
‘Oh, now we do know what they stand for that’s different. They stand
for helping the rich and at the same time, the President’s talking about
vetoing the civil rights bill, so helping the rich and white guys?’"
-- ABC and NPR reporter Cokie Roberts to Richard Darman, October 21 This Week with David Brinkley.
Paul Ehrlich Ecological Panic Award
"If
nothing is done to reverse ozone damage, scientists predict hundreds of
millions of skin cancer cases in the U.S. alone, not to mention
increased global warming that would turn much of the planet into a
desert."
-- Reporter Mark Phillips on the January 16 CBS Evening News.
Runners-Up:
"The
missteps, poor efforts and setbacks brought on by the Reagan years have
made this a more sober Earth Day. The task seems larger now."
-- Today
co-host Bryant Gumbel, April 20.
"Clean air and water, pure food
and natural beauty, which most Californians were all for a few months
ago, have been made to seem a radical and expensive idea that has to be
rejected at the polls on Tuesday. The stakes are very high in California
because environmentalists know that if the Big Green initiative happens
to pass there, the idea of cleaning up the air and water could spread
like wildfire to all the other states. The forces opposing it know that
too."
-- Charles Kuralt on America Tonight, October 31.
Good Morning Morons Award
"We
would like to believe the State of the Union address is a time when the
President tells the American people the way it is. But no one really
wants to hear that, so the President keeps reality down to a minimum.
The President was remarkably upbeat for a man who runs a country with a
monstrous national debt, huge balance of trade problems, a crumbling
infrastructure, dirty air, countless homeless people, a coast-to-coast
drug epidemic, and a faltering self-image."
-- CBS This Morning co-host
Harry Smith, February 2.
Runners-Up:
"The bottom line is
more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary
issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President
later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to
Today. It’s a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly,
seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the
fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years."
-- Bryant Gumbel
opening NBC’s Today, May 9.
Bob Squier, Democratic
Strategist: "I think that it was a game of chicken. I think what you had
was Gingrich, who is supposed to be part of the leadership, leading
people literally out of the deal."
Bryant Gumbel: "Acting irresponsibly."
Gumbel: "....Is this the legacy of Ronald Reagan politics, I mean,
feel-good politics of the ‘80s, no-responsibility politics of the ‘80s?"
Roger Ailes, Republican Strategist: "I think that’s a misnomer..."
Gumbel: "But weren’t the ‘80s about spending what we didn’t have? And
that was Ronald Reagan."
-- Exchanges on Today, October 5.
Most Honest Confession Award
"There
is no such thing as objective reporting...I’ve become even more crafty
about finding the voices to say the things I think are true. That’s my
subversive mission."
-- Boston Globe environmental reporter Dianne
Dumanoski at an Utne Reader symposium May 17-20. Quoted by Micah
Morrison in the July American Spectator.
Runners-Up:
"I
think that when abortion opponents complain about a bias in newsrooms
against their cause, they’re absolutely right." "Opposing abortion, in
the eyes of most journalists...is not a legitimate, civilized position
in our society."
-- Boston Globe legal reporter Ethan Bronner in Los
Angeles Times reporter David Shaw’s series on abortion coverage, July 1.
"After seeing our footage, she told us that Frontline doesn’t
co-produce anti-communist programs."
-- Cinematographer Nestor Almendros on a Frontline producer’s reaction to his anti-Castro documentary Nobody Listened, quoted by Don Kowet in the August 8 Washington Times.
Gorbasm Award*
"Gorbachev
has probably moved more quickly than any person in the history of the
world. Moving faster than Jesus Christ did. America is always lagging
six months behind...I think we can get by easily with a $75 billion
military budget. Those bombers and all of this stuff is an absolute
waste of money and a joke."
-- Ted Turner, "TV chieftain with an
outspoken conscience," celebrated in the January 22 Time.
Runners-Up:
"The
supreme leader of an atheistic state was baptized as a child. Now, in a
sense, Gorbachev means to accomplish the salvation of an entire society
that has gone astray...Much more than that, Gorbachev is a visionary
enacting a range of complex and sometimes contradictory roles. He is
simultaneously the communist Pope and the Soviet Martin Luther, the
apparatchik as Magellan and McLuhan. The Man of the Decade is a global
navigator."
-- Time Senior Writer Lance Morrow, January 1.
"He
has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes...There’s a kind of
laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not
come across as something peaceful within himself. It’s the look of a
kind of human volcano, or he’d probably like to describe it as ahuman
nuclear energy plant."
-- Dan Rather on Mikhail Gorbachev, quoted in the
May 10 Seattle Times.
* With thanks to Rush Limbaugh
Thurgood Marshall Judicial Reporting Award
"Supreme
Court nominee David Souter wants the world to stop viewing him as a
nerd. Senate Democrats want to know if, instead, Souter is a neanderthal
-- a mean-spirited conservative bent on wrecking constitutional
protections for women, minorities, and accused criminals."
-- Beginning
of September 13 USA Today cover story by legal reporter Tony Mauro.
Runners-Up:
"Chief
Justice Rehnquist had the kind of image problems that might be expected
of a jurist who habitually rejected constitutional equality for women,
approved the execution of allegedly insane prisoners without a hearing,
denied constitutional equality to aliens and bastards, asserted that the
public did not have a constitutional right to attend court trials, said
prisoners had no rights to practice religious freedom, and spoke warmly
of the legendary Isaac (‘Hanging Judge’) Parker, who cheerfully ordered
eighty-five executions."
-- Former CBS News law reporter Fred Graham in
his book Happy Talk.
"Senator Simon, is there any doubt in your
mind that [Souter’s] views pretty well parallel those of John Sununu’s
which means he’s anti-abortion or anti-women’s rights, whichever way you
want to put it?"
-- Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, July 23.
Jim Florio Tax Advocacy Award
"The
overall tax burden for Americans, local, state and federal, is actually
quite low....The fact is Americans could pay more taxes and the country
wouldn’t go down the tube. Taxpayers don’t believe this because they
are being conned by the politicians....The truth is that the United
States needs higher taxes and can afford them. Some political leaders
are now starting to say that, but until more say it, the country will
remain in trouble."
-- Commentator John Chancellor on the NBC Nightly
News, April 17.
Runners-Up:
"The fact is that most
government spending cannot be cut. The way out of the mess is for the
government to raise some money through taxes and at last that’s being
done. And there’s encouraging news in the returns from yesterday’s
elections. Six states from Massachusetts to California rejected measures
designed to limit taxation. Can it be that the great tax revolt of the
1980s is coming to an end? If true, maybe the country can get on with
the business of balancing its books in a sensible and logical way."
--
John Chancellor on NBC Nightly News, November 7.
"[Except] for
capital gains, it is certain the President won’t mention the T word, and
yet taxes are very much at the heart of what all our potential
solutions are. How long can both sides pretend that a hike’s not
needed?"
-- Bryant Gumbel on Today, January 31.
Media Hero Award/Abroad
"Ortega’s
defeat is something American Presidents had sought for ten years. Yet
Ortega’s statesman-like acceptance of the voters’ decision has prompted
some in Washington to call the Sandinista leader a champion of
democracy."
-- Today co-host Deborah Norville before interview with
Daniel Ortega, April 24.
"We talked to one observer who told us
that if he were awarding the Nobel Prize, he would nominate Mikhail
Gorbachev and Daniel Ortega. What do you think of that?"
-- one of
Norville’s questions to Ortega.
Runners-Up:
"Fidel
[Castro] touched this young machine adjuster, and the man enjoyed a mild
ecstasy. I know the feeling."
-- Institute for Policy Studies Senior
Fellow Saul Landau in his pro-Castro documentary The Uncompromising
Revolution, aired along with Nobody Listened on PBS August 8.
"Mandela
leaves as a principled man, with all but the dullards understanding why
he would embrace the Palestinians, whose children are being killed and
family homes bulldozed in Israel just as black families’ are in
Soweto....Moreover, if Mandela is a terrorist -- as conservatives have
called him -- he would fit right in with U.S. patriots such as George
Washington, Patrick Henry, Nat Turner, and Harriet Tubman. If it had not
been for those terrorists, what would we have to wave our flags about
on the Fourth of July?"
-- USA Today Inquiry Editor Barbara Reynolds, June 29.
Media Hero Award/At Home
"The problem for Florio
is that, as history has shown, when you step up and are a leader, people
often don’t like you. And it can take a long time, even centuries, for
history to look back and say that was a good guy....I think that Florio
will go down as the first, I hope not the last, brave man of the ‘80s
and ‘90s."
-- Washington Post "Outlook" editor Jodie Allen on N.J.
Governor who raised income taxes, July 29 Money Politics.
Runners-Up:
"Let
Ronald Reagan ride off into the sunset untroubled by fleeting memories
of astrologers, smoke-and-mirrors budget arithmetic, and
arms-for-hostages swaps. Dwell instead on those political tall timbers
still standing, the heirs of Jefferson, Madison, and Lincoln....Only
Jesse Jackson, still an acquired taste for most white Americans, can
strike the kind of inspirational pose that one could imagine being
immortalized in granite."
-- Time Senior Writer Walter Shapiro in the
September GQ.
"[Justice William Brennan] loved the flag clearly,
and the Constitution, too...Maybe the way to remember Brennan’s years on
the Court is with some words he spoke to another Georgetown University
event back in 1979. ‘The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of
man will never end,’ he said. The quest, though always old, is never
old, like the poor old woman in Yeats’ play. ‘Did you see an old woman
going down the path?’ asked Bridget. ‘I did not,’ replied Patrick, who
had come into the house just after the old woman had left it. ‘But I saw
a young girl and she had the walk of a queen.’ William Brennan loved
and served two young girls who walked like queens -- his country, and
its highest court."
-- Conclusion to story by reporter Bruce Morton on
the July 21 CBS Evening News.
Dewey Defeats Truman Award
"Polls
won’t close here for another thirty minutes, but the widespread belief
that the Sandinistas will prevail has shifted thinking far beyond the
ballot box. The topic of the day is: how will a freely elected
Sandinista government be treated by the United States?"
-- NBC’s Ed
Rabel in Nicaragua, February 25 Nightly News.
Runners-Up:
"The
election observers say the Bush Administration may have itself to blame
for Daniel Ortega’s rise in popularity among the voters. The reason,
they say, is the U.S. military invasion in Panama. That was a move that
was widely denounced here in Nicaragua. It was a close race until the
U.S. invaded."
-- NBC reporter Ed Rabel four days before Nicaragua
election, February 21 Nightly News.
"For the Bush Administration
and the Reagan Administration before it, the [ABC News-Washington Post]
poll hints at a simple truth: after years of trying to get rid of the
Sandinistas, there is not much to show for their efforts."
-- Peter Jennings five days before vote, World News Tonight, February 20.
The Real Reagan Legacy Award
"It
will take 100 years to get the government back into place after Reagan.
He hurt people: the disabled, women, nursing mothers, the homeless."
--
White House reporter Sarah McClendon in USA Today, February 16.
Runners-Up:
"Now
the lessons of Iran-Contra are also clear. We have learned this: that a
President who lies to Congress and to the people will feel free to joke
about it. A Vice President who lies to Congress and to the people will
be elected President. A White House aide who lies to Congress and to the
people will be hailed as a hero until the time for a reckoning
comes...An administration, in short, that lies to Congress and to the
people is the accepted order of things. And a Constitution designed to
prevent exactly that order is a mere scrap of paper."
-- PBS’ Bill
Moyers writing in the January 1990 issue of The Progressive.
"Okay,
Democrats are certainly not without blame. But I believe the S&L
crisis lands right at the Republican door. It was the magic of the
marketplace that took off the regulations...Oh, Ronald Reagan and the
magic of the marketplace was the theme of the ‘80s. Greed in this
country is associated with Ronald Reagan."
-- Newsweek reporter Eleanor Clift on Face the Nation, July 29.
Which Way Is It? Domestic Affairs
"When
inflation is taken into account, it adds up to a cut in defense
spending, and that’s the first time in a long time that has happened."
-- Bob Schieffer on the January 27 CBS Evening News.
vs.
"It’s
easily overlooked, but the fact is, that in real terms, the defense
budget has been going down every year since 1985. "
-- CBS News Pentagon
correspondent David Martin on Nightwatch, January 31.
Runners-Up:
"If
there’s anything that we heard out there at the polls today, it was the
sound of Reaganomics crashing all around us. If there’s anything left
of Reagan’s trickle-down theory, Dan, it seems to be anxiety which seems
to be trickling down through just about every segment of our society."
-- Ed Bradley during CBS News election night coverage, November 6.
vs.
"We
have a lot of turnovers where Republican Governors raised taxes and
they have been turned out."
-- Lesley Stahl, also during CBS election
coverage.
“Spending and income rose slightly in Aug.”
-- Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27
vs.
“Spending, Income, Orders Fall”
-- Washington Post, same day
Joe Isuzu Foreign Correspondent Award
"But
they [young people] are the healthiest and most educated young people
in Cuba’s history. For that many of them say they have Castro and his
socialist revolution to thank....if they long for the sweeping changes
occurring in Eastern Europe, they are not saying so publicly....To the
extent he can, Castro has been rewarding young people. For example, on
their return home [from Angola], the 300,000 Cubans sent to Africa were
first in line for housing, jobs, and education. Such benevolence breeds
dedication, some young people say."
-- NBC reporter Ed Rabel, April 1
Nightly News.
Runners-Up:
"It’s almost impossible for most
Americans to understand a government organization that monitors
everything, that has tentacles reaching into all aspects of Soviet life.
But keep in mind the KGB is like a combination of the CIA, the FBI, of
the National Security Agency, the Secret Service, and the Coast Guard,
too. From Lenin to Stalin to Gorbachev, its members have been a proud
corps of the national elite, intelligent, talented, and fully in
control. The officers of the KGB, in fact, decided reform was necessary
long before Gorbachev came to power."
-- Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Prime
Time Live, August 2.
"But Ortega, an irritant to Carter, became
an obsession to Reagan, who saw him as an instrument of Moscow. The
Contra rebels were the blunt instrument in Ronald Reagan’s attack on
Daniel Ortega. Reagan’s dogged support for the Contras forever marked
and ultimately scarred his foreign policy....Many of the Contras were
former members of the Nicaraguan National Guard, Somoza’s enforcers.
They were brutal, often inept...It has been one of the longest and most
traumatic chapters in U.S. history in Latin America, and tonight it
seems to be ending, and ending in a way Ronald Reagan never could have
imagined."
-- NBC reporter John Dancy the day after Nicaragua’s election, February 26 Nightly News.
Gennadi Gerasimov Newspeak Award
"Free
at last, the temptation is to exercise all that freedom -- fully,
quickly and sometimes unwisely. Often, it means biting the hand that
freed and fed you. Lithuania is the latest and most ludicrous
example....There is little more logic to Lithuania eing permitted to
unilaterally and unlawfully declare its independence from the USSR than
there would be for Texas to secede from the USA. Both were grabbed
during a war. But both owe much to their modern-day mother country.
Gorby has a right to feel livid about Lithuania. The way you might feel
about a runaway child, tempted to beat him within an inch of his life."
-- USA Today founder Al Neuharth in an April 20 column.
Runners-Up:
"Yes,
somehow, Soviet citizens are freer these days: freer to kill one
another, freer to hate Jews, freer to express themselves...But doing
away with totalitarianism and adding a dash of democracy seems an
unlikely cure for what ails the Soviet system."
-- CBS This Morning
co-host Harry Smith, February 9.
"Many Soviets viewing the
current chaos and nationalist unrest under Gorbachev look back almost
longingly to the era of brutal order under Stalin."
-- Mike Wallace on
60 Minutes, February 11.
"Soviet people have become accustomed to
security if nothing else. Life isn’t good here, but people don’t go
hungry, homeless; a job has always been guaranteed. Now all socialist
bets are off. A market economy looms, and the social contract that has
held Soviet society together for 72 years no longer applies. The people
seem baffled, disappointed, let down. Many don’t like the prospect of
their nation becoming just another capitalist machine."
-- CNN Moscow reporter Steve Hurst on PrimeNews, May 24.
Which Way Is It? Foreign Affairs
"Attempting
to defect will no longer be a severely punishable offense, but will be
known as ‘border trespass,’ subject only to a minor penalty. And the
death penalty, now applied to 34 offenses, will be retained only for
those that involve direct ‘betrayal’ of the communist state and the
social order."
-- Christian Science Monitor correspondent Eric Bourne, September 12.
vs.
"A reminder from Eastern Europe today that not
all has changed. In Albania today, border guards shot and killed a
four-year-old girl when they opened fire on a group of Albanians trying
to cross into Yugoslavia. Albania is the last of the totalitarian states
in Eastern Europe."
-- Peter Jennings on World News Tonight, same day.
Runners-Up:
“Black Nationalist Urges Continued Armed Struggle”
-- Washington Post front page, February 12
vs.
“Mandela Poised to Take Role of Conciliator”
-- same newspaper front page, same day
“Moscow protesters call for Gorbachev to quit”
-- Boston Herald, September 17
vs.
“Ryzhkov urged to resign at pro-Gorbachev rally”
-- Boston Globe, same day
Award for the Silliest Analysis
"The
reporters (at Capital News) work for a shining institution, basically
the last uncorrupted institution you can find. Hospitals are corrupt.
Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our
newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism."
-- Former Washington
Post editor Christian Williams, Executive Producer of ABC’s short-lived
series Capital News, April 9 Newark Star Ledger.
Runners-Up:
"In
many ways, in outlook and behavior the U.S. has begun to act like a
primitive warrior culture. We seem to believe that leadership is
expressed, in no small part, by a willingness to cause the deaths of
others....Our collective fantasies center on mayhem, cruelty, and
violent death. Loving images of the human body -- especially of bodies
seeking pleasure or expressing love -- inspire us with the urge to
censor."
-- Time essayist Barbara Ehrenreich, October 15.
"It
used to be that the United States was number one, dominant....So right
now, we are fast losing our position as number one, Connie....Yes, we’re
no longer dominant, we’re no longer the number one nation, Connie...so
we are no longer that number one, dominant nation. That’s the big change
here now."
-- CBS economics reporter Ray Brady on the Evening News, July 8.
Quote of the Year
"Few tears will be shed over the
demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty
symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies, or the whole East
German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day
care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are
beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin
Wall."
-- CBS reporter Bob Simon on the March 16 Evening News.
Runners-Up:
"The
‘balanced’ report, in some cases, may no longer be the most effective,
or even the most informative. Indeed, it can be debilitating. Can we
afford to wait for our audience to come to its own conclusions? I think
not."
-- Teya Ryan, Senior Producer of Turner Broadcasting’s
CNN-produced Network Earth series, in the Summer 1990 Gannett Center
Journal.
"Modern man has reached the point where his demands for
space are ravaging the planet, and wiping out other life forms in the
process. Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich is back with more of his series
‘Assignment Earth,’ and this morning he begins with a report on how man
is destroying the entire ecological system with something that appears
to be completely harmless."
-- Deborah Norville introducing Paul
Ehrlich’s report on cows, January 9 Today.
"Congress changed the
Soviet Constitution to permit limited private ownership of small
factories, although laws remain against exploitation of everyone else."
-- NBC Moscow reporter Bob Abernethy on Nightly News, March 13.
Nothing To Do With the Media, But We Couldn’t Resist
"I
wish I’d done this before I’d run for President. It would’ve given me
insight into the anxiety any independent businessman or farmer must
have....Now I’ve had to meet a payroll every week. I’ve got to pay the
bank every month....I’ve got to pay the state of Connecticut taxes....It
gives you a whole new perspective on what other people worry about."
-- Former Senator George McGovern on owning a Connecticut hotel, his first-ever business venture, in the March 1 Washington Post.
-- L. Brent Bozell III, Publisher; Brent H. Baker, Tim Graham; Editors
-- Callista Gould, Jim Heiser, Marian Kelley, Gerard Scimeca; Media Analysts
-- Jennifer Hardebeck; Administrative Assistant