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DFW

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5. My dad was a prominent member of the Washington print press

Reply to CBHagman (Reply #4)

Mon May 27, 2024, 09:40 AM

May 2024

Thomas L. Stokes award, president of the Gridiron Club, THAT kind of prominent.

He already was yelling out warnings of the nasty direction the fourth estate was taking between 1996 and 2000, when he passed.

It's maybe merciful he never lived to see the perversion of his beloved profession that came after that.

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