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GeoWilliam750

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14. Mike Royko is well worth reading

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #13)

Fri Jun 11, 2021, 10:05 PM

Jun 2021

He was probably the best columnist of the last 60 years, and although he died in 1997, his work is still highly readable - his are among the few books I have read twice. "Like I Was Saying" is a good start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko

He hated Murdoch back in the 1980s.

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Murdoch's Sun, U.K.'s Biggest Paper for Decades, Now Worth Zero [View all] brooklynite Jun 2021 OP

I hate for any newspaper to fail leftieNanner Jun 2021 #1

Couldn't happen to a more deserving rag... regnaD kciN Jun 2021 #12

Now where will I go to see saucy lasses on page 6? mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2021 #2

It was, but it was Page Three muriel_volestrangler Jun 2021 #4

I find it difficult to believe that one of Murdoch's papers ever 'campaigned for social causes'. pecosbob Jun 2021 #3

For RW social causes IronLionZion Jun 2021 #7

fine, im sure they will rush to take my offer of a shiny 2 pound coin for the whole lot quakerboy Jun 2021 #5

to me fox news not worth a plug nickel !! monkeyman1 Jun 2021 #6

Its best use is to wrap fish BigmanPigman Jun 2021 #8

In the wise words of Mike Royko GeoWilliam750 Jun 2021 #11

I don't know who Royco is but I like the way he thinks. BigmanPigman Jun 2021 #13

Mike Royko is well worth reading GeoWilliam750 Jun 2021 #14

He's still got Sky News in Australia. It's worse than Fox. LogicFirst Jun 2021 #9

Yes, Prime Minsiter sums up the Sun and its worth quite nicely rpannier Jun 2021 #10

A classic always good for a laugh. (And still true after forty years) NT cinematicdiversions Jun 2021 #15

K&R ck4829 Jun 2021 #16