The ColumnistPub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190067588.003.0003
D. Ritchie
{"title":"Nothing to Fear","authors":"D. Ritchie","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190067588.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190067588.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal provided a bonanza for the “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” The president and his cabinet members showered the columnists with strategic leaks, often to test the waters before making official announcements. This enabled Drew Pearson and Robert Allen to scoop the rest of the press corps on pending appointments and other issues. Although Pearson admired Roosevelt and his liberal policies, he resisted playing propagandist. He criticized the administration and irritated Roosevelt by revealing news the president was not yet ready to release. Roosevelt retaliated by prompting General Douglas MacArthur to file a libel suit against the columnists, and by denouncing Pearson as a “chronic liar.” Pearson used the column to attack his father’s critic, Senator Millard Tydings, which Robert Allen regarded as vindictive. The pressures of reporting eventually caused strains between the two columnists, leading Allen to quit the column after Pearson revealed damaging information about General George S. Patton during World War II.","PeriodicalId":170520,"journal":{"name":"The Columnist","volume":"502 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123061490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ColumnistPub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190067588.003.0007
D. Ritchie
{"title":"The Case against Congress","authors":"D. Ritchie","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190067588.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190067588.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Favorable mention in the “Washington Merry-Go-Round” could boost congressional careers, while exposés undermined them. Believing that those who wrote the laws should abide by them, Pearson taunted legislators about their misdeeds and encouraged them to police themselves. He denounced lax ethics rules and exposed members who took kickbacks. The columnist took credit for the indictment, imprisonment, censure, and expulsion of a half dozen members of Congress, and the defeat of many more. It might not have mattered as much to elected officials if the “Merry-Go-Round” had appeared exclusively in the Washington Post, but its widespread syndication increased the odds that their constituents would also read him. Congressman Martin Sweeney sued him, and many more denounced him as a liar. Pearson responded by publishing a “liars’ scorecard,” indicating how often his critics were later convicted for the crimes he accused them of committing.","PeriodicalId":170520,"journal":{"name":"The Columnist","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134515689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ColumnistPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190067588.003.0009
Donald A. Ritchie
{"title":"Disliking Ike","authors":"Donald A. Ritchie","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190067588.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190067588.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Although Drew Pearson encouraged Dwight Eisenhower to run for president, he quickly lost his enthusiasm and became a frequent critic. Pearson had hoped that Eisenhower would stand up against McCarthyism but considered his response to be weak. Knowing that many of the newspapers that carried the “Merry-Go-Round” were Republican, Pearson tried to cover the Republican administration fairly, while scrutinizing it thoroughly. His columns helped to defeat the nomination of Lewis Strauss to be secretary of commerce, and forced the resignation of Eisenhower’s chief of staff, Sherman Adams. Eisenhower’s objective of a “leak-free” administration made investigative reporting harder and caused Pearson to be frequently assailed by Eisenhower’s press secretary, James Hagerty, for publishing lies. Later evidence, however, has supported Pearson’s reporting and revealed Hagerty to be the liar.","PeriodicalId":170520,"journal":{"name":"The Columnist","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114392642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ColumnistPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190067588.003.0008
D. Ritchie
{"title":"Battling McCarthyism","authors":"D. Ritchie","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190067588.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190067588.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Drew Pearson carried on a four-year campaign against the Red-baiting Joe McCarthy that ended with the senator’s censure. For Pearson, their clash caused the loss of his radio and television sponsors, and a substantial cut in his income, along with a physical beating by McCarthy. Since the senator had made himself a good source, the “Merry-Go-Round” treated him well until his speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, accusing the State Department of harboring known Communists. Pearson rebutted these charges and devoted numerous columns to McCarthy’s irresponsible accusations. He also targeted McCarthy’s young aides, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine. The column’s reports that Schine had evaded military service led to his being drafted. Cohn’s efforts to win special privileges for Private Schine then precipitated the Army-McCarthy hearings. Pearson’s stand against McCarthyism also caused his permanent estrangement from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.","PeriodicalId":170520,"journal":{"name":"The Columnist","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115280299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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