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| b 29 superfortress, nostalgia, caroline petit, sears tower, vista, rap & hip hop, little boy, flash, oppenhiemer, del close, oreilly, wmd facilities, chicago, dj equipment, rabbit pearl, chicago blues, mtv.com, black lizard, root reggae, boxing, sandiego north county, funny jokes, dancing, meand the fat man, | Like most reporters, Germond is a conventional liberal by temperament--yet readers of all thediary of a fat man political stripes will enjoy his fast-paced recollections. --John J. Miller From Publishers Weekly The journalistic antithesis of the crusading Anderson, Germond looks back on a long career and admits: "My indignation threshold was too high to sustain me as an investigative reporter. I couldn't get worked up thediary of a fat man about the mayor getting his driveway paved with public asphalt." The statement, with thediary of a fat man its smooth blend of self-needling irony and unapologetic embrace of modest expectation, is representative of this outstanding reporter's memoir. Germond may be familiar to most readers as the chagrined, portly liberal at whom conservatives Pat Buchanan and Fred Barnes threw their verbal harpoons on television's The McLaughlin Group. |
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| He's a reporter's reporter, the kind of fellow who knows that for every good story "you spend two or three rainy Friday nights at the airport in Atlanta trying to fly standby and ending up as the fat man in the middle seat." Germond cut his teeth at a small newspaper in Michigan, where he began to master his trade: "Once you learned to deal boxing with Carlos Gastambide, the business agent for the largest UAW local at the boxing Monroe Auto Equipment Company, you would not likely be intimidated again by any boxing source at any level, up to and including the White House." He later rubbed elbows with some of the best-known journalists of his generation, and his memoir contains plenty of anecdotes about these colleagues (David Broder, Tom Brokaw, Robert Novak) as well as the people they covered. His chapter on The McLaughlin Group, which he abruptly quit in 1996, is a real highlight, revealing both his disdain for television's "lowest common denominator" programming and the medium's awesome financial temptations. |
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