[lbo-talk] right-wing hit on LF

John Lacny jlacny at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 14 14:50:32 PST 2005


The Tribune-Review is owned by Richard Mellon-Scaife. Their editors (and Steigerwald is one of them) are a bunch of clowns, and everyone around here knows it. Unfortunately, the Trib is the major daily paper in Westmoreland County (suburban/rural county east of Pittsburgh), which is a cause for some concern, but they're not taken seriously in Pittsburgh proper. They basically play the Washington Times to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Washington Post.

Their lead editor, Colin McNickle, briefly gained national notoriety last year by eliciting a spirited -- though given the Trib's track record of vicious calumny against her, I thought it remarkably understated -- "Shove it!" from Teresa Heinz. McNickle strains to imitate William F. Buckley's prose with comical results. For more on this, see:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/letters/s_183883.html

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