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Santorum to write Inquirer column again?
Could Rick Santorum be headed back to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he penned an arch-conservative column for $1,750 (daaa-mn!) a pop from 2007 to 2009? That's what reporter Tom Fitzgerald speculated in today's Inquirer.
Santorum to write Inquirer column again?
Could Rick Santorum be headed back to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he penned an arch-conservative column for $1,750 (daaa-mn!) a pop from 2007 to 2009? That's what reporter Thomas Fitzgerald speculated in today's Inquirer article about what lies ahead for the former senator from Pennsylvania after he dropped his presidential bid before what could have been a humiliating home state primary loss on April 24.
"Some have suggested," writes Fitzgerald, "that Santorum could cash in on the lecture circuit, repair to a think tank, head for a commentator's job - perhaps with Fox News, where he was employed before his run - or even return to writing a column for The Inquirer."
"It hasn't been discussed or explored to my knowledge," editorial page editor Harold Jackson responded.
It would likely be up to the new ownership team, which includes parking magnate Lewis Katz and South Jersey Democratic political boss George E. Norcross III―people the New York Times' David Carr this week called “newspaper barons.”
Santorum leveraged his prime journalistic real estate to criticize Obama for “justifying the killing of newborn babies," misquoted the president on Iran, and made things up about what happened when Norway legalized gay marriage (straights stopped marrying and then unmarried women had so many babies!), according to a separate Inquirer article by Matt Katz. He even attacked George W. Bush for failing to use his preferred term “Islamo-fascists ” when discussing Muslim terrorists, though he did call Mayor Michael Nutter's fight with the homophobic Boy Scouts a “jihad.”
Will Rick return to the Inquirer? Perhaps more importantly, should he? I'm sure that readers will be writing letters to Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com to express their opinion on the matter. Inquirer journalists―or those left now that round after round of layoffs have decimated their ranks―will likely also feel some kind of way as to whether this would be a wise investment of $42,000 a year for the financially troubled Philadelphia Media Network.
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