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Here's one who knew when it was time to go...
1 posted on 08/14/2006 11:38:57 AM PDT by abb
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2 posted on 08/14/2006 11:39:25 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

Well, there ends the last reason to read any of the three newsmags.


3 posted on 08/14/2006 11:40:45 AM PDT by AmishDude
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The whole model of anointed commentators talking down to mostly passive readers has crumbled. If column-writing were a stock, I would sell now."

I can't wait for the day when Mo Dowd is just another poster on DU.

4 posted on 08/14/2006 11:42:06 AM PDT by dirtboy (This tagline has been photoshopped)
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To: abb
The whole model of anointed commentators talking down to mostly passive readers has crumbled.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, John.

What we're witnessing here is a complete elimination of all the lines that used to define people in the past. Politicians are no more competent than the people who elect them, law enforcement officials are no more law-abiding than the citizens they shake down on a daily basis, and people in the media are no more relevant to the public discussion about important issues than Ronald McDonald is.

6 posted on 08/14/2006 11:44:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: abb

I've been a subscriber to USNWR since the late 70's. John Leo was probably the best...


10 posted on 08/14/2006 11:52:11 AM PDT by Paisan
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To: abb
John Leo

One of the good guys IMHO.

12 posted on 08/14/2006 11:57:38 AM PDT by dighton
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To: abb

I must've been reading him when he was local or something. I could've sworn that I was reading him in college, which would've been prior to 86. Maybe I'm misremembering.


14 posted on 08/14/2006 12:00:43 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: abb

Somehow I suspect there will always be a place for men like John Leo. His voice is not just that of a friend, it's of a trusted partner. He'll be missed.


16 posted on 08/14/2006 12:27:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (Al Gore - the original "Millions Could Die" kind of guy....)
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To: abb
John Leo: one of the good ones.

He hasn't the pretentious, sanctimonious, pettiness to be a blogger though...

23 posted on 08/14/2006 1:32:14 PM PDT by mrsmith
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