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About Lawrence
Lawrence Meyer is a veteran, award-winning newspaper reporter and editor. He spent thirty-two years at The Washington Post, where he witnessed many of the twentieth century’s most dramatic events. During the 1970s, he covered the attempted assassination of Governor George C. Wallace, the Watergate break-in trial, the Senate Watergate hearings, and the subsequent impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon. His intimate familiarity with the thinking and politics at the heart of a great American newspaper lends remarkable accuracy and immediacy to The Final Edition.
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Our Identity Crisis
Who are we? Here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the despondency is overwhelming. The results of Tuesday’s election are dispiriting, to say the least, for many of us. The realization that half of our fellow citizens voted for someone with so many disqualifying features and a disqualifying character is even more distressing. Last…
Read MoreThe Media’s Frankenstein
By Lawrence Meyer Donald Trump held a press conference on August 8 in the ballroom of his “home,” Mar a Lago–at least he called it a press conference. The press was there, of course, but they were actually props who asked questions that no one watching on live television could hear, allowing Trump to go on at great length about…
Read MoreCorporal J.D. Vance’s military career in perspective
J.D. Vance has taken on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his military service—more than 20 years in the Army National Guard, retiring as a master sergeant. Vance has criticized Walz for allegedly resigning from the National Guard when his unit was deployed to Iraq. “What bothers me about Tim Walz,” Vance said, “is the stolen valor garbage.” “As a Marine…
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