Walter Shapiro

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@jpitney @SeanTrende @mattholt33 There was some research by Elaine Kamarck and Bill Galston that found that another factor in WV in 2000 were married women outraged at the Democratic Party's permissiveness toward Clinton. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeanTrende @mattholt33 The pivot election for WV was 2000. — PolitiTweet.org

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@klerner @ProvokingPress @CJR I look forward to reading your book. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ozarkspider It's collected in "Just Enough Liebling." https://t.co/KKVkWBtAu6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProvokingPress As I recall, the annual conventions that [MORE] hosted in the mid-1970s were called Liebling 1 and Liebling 2. Alas, I don't think [MORE] survived long enough to get to Liebling 3. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cockburn once wrote that "Foreign Affairs is for war criminals on the way down and Foreign Policy is for war criminals on the way up." Also, having laughed my way last night through an A.J. Liebling piece on the gushy obituary praise of George Patton, I must add him to the list. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not minimizing the dislocations and the potential suffering caused by the stuck ship. But, let's be honest, isn't this the funniest international crisis that we have had in years? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jamespmanley I think you under-estimate his dick-dom. — PolitiTweet.org

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@C_Wolbrecht @debbiejsr I haven’t seen “Journeys with George” since it came out. But it is a tribute to Alexandra Pelosi that I remember it so vividly even now. — PolitiTweet.org

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Re-enactments of the Salem Witch Trials were a big part of the undergraduate curriculum when I was a student at Michigan during the Vietnam War. Whoops, I got that wrong. It was equating the witch trials with McCarthyism that I now remember. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TerryTeachout1 Yes. Absolutely. Casual and before Covid , a dress watch for the theater and restaurants. — PolitiTweet.org

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Favorite piece of the day from @StevenLevy: https://t.co/vgS28AniEP — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlexMLeo That idea floats my boat. — PolitiTweet.org

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That should have been an iron law of life since the Lusitania. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JournalYear Read it as well. In fact, I think I read everything I could find in the public library by Albert Payson Terhune. And I don't even have or want a dog. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs Well, long ago at the Washington Post, I was assigned to work on the "Cats" issue of the Post Magazine. And, no, it was not an homage to the Broadway musical. — PolitiTweet.org

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So glad you wrote this set of tweets. You are one of the best editors I ever worked with during a career of...shall we say...many decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs You win this evening's round. — PolitiTweet.org

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The most exhausting job in public life: being an Andrew Cuomo flack. "At times, employees in the state health laboratory were kept past their shifts until late into the night to process [Covid test] results of those close to Cuomo, two people said." https://t.co/bFndZX4OZH — PolitiTweet.org

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@DetroitGearhead Newspapers had an equally dismal problem with disappearing ads starting with the classifieds. But, unlike the ad crisis of the 2000s, the gospel that "news is free" still endangers newspapers trying to save themselves in 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

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@toddinphx @dannowicki I agree. It drives me crazy that I have to fully subscribe to everything or cannot get anything. I wish I could purchase the equivalent of an all-access pass to a bunch of newspaper websites that I look at infrequently. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman @evefairbanks I can imagine them boasting at board meetings about how many new younger readers were reading their online offerings without paying. What a clever strategy to create the next generation of newspaper readers. — PolitiTweet.org

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The eternal harm that newspapers did in the early 2000s by putting their content online without charge continues to haunt us. Even those too young to remember, say, 2003 grew up in a culture where the expectation was that "news is free." — PolitiTweet.org

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Mirror had a daily circulation of 850,000 and Sunday circulation of 1 million when it died. It was also losing $2 million a year in 1963. Here is Time magazine's obit: https://t.co/rzDDMXhogm — PolitiTweet.org

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@GenCounselWolf @JohnRobertAnde3 @ClydeHaberman It was the Chicago American until 1969 when it became Chicago Today. Here's a history of Chicago's papers: https://t.co/2iA0XnC9JG — PolitiTweet.org

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Something called the Brooklyn Eagle was published in 1962. It seems pretty real to me. Here's a link to a typical front page: https://t.co/FFk7TAQrY4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Tatiner The first casualty of the strike. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman According to a Brooklyn Library database, they have the Eagle published through 1963. It may have been a tiny rump edition unrecognized by real Eagle alums. — PolitiTweet.org

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Long Island Press was probably the missing 9th paper. Also the Brooklyn Eagle had been revived in 1961 and it may have been included. And along with the WSJ, there was also the venerable Journal of Commence. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnRobertAnde3 @ClydeHaberman Embarrassed that I forgot the Wall Street Journal. Yikes. What Murdoch ownership has done to my head. But what's the ninth? — PolitiTweet.org