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A president should read a newspaper
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| Contributor | Eddie |
| Last Edited | Eddie Nov 17, 2003 05:52am |
| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Nov 17, 2003 12:00am |
| Description | By JAMES HOWARD GIBBONS
Throughout his presidential campaign and first years in office, President Bush has had to combat the impression that he is an intellectually lazy, incurious, ill-read, semi-empty vessel. Recently he all but confirmed the suspicion when he told a television interviewer that he never reads a newspaper beyond the occasional headline.
Since Bush doesn't read a daily newspaper, Americans must assume he is ignorant of much that one contains. Without a newspaper, he can't even know the name of his latest campaign contributor to be indicted.
Without a newspaper or an equivalent stack of periodicals, Bush doesn't know what books people are reading, what movies people are watching, or which ones are worth seeing. He doesn't know what celebrity's atrocity has enthralled the public. Perhaps briefing him on all that is Card's job.
Bush says he avoids newspapers because they might contain opinion. A person afraid of critical opinion must be insecure in his own. |
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