Robert Parry Biography
- Title:
- Editor for the Consortium News
- Position:
- Con to the question "Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?"
- Reasoning:
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“[T]here’s a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan’s presidency…
With his superficially sunny disposition – and a ruthless political strategy of exploiting white-male resentments – Reagan convinced millions of Americans that the threats they faced were: African-American welfare queens, Central American leftists, a rapidly expanding Evil Empire based in Moscow, and the do-good federal government…
Despite the grievous harm that Reagan’s presidency inflicted on the American Republic and the American people, it may take many more years before a historian has the guts to put this deformed era into a truthful perspective and rate Reagan where he belongs — near the bottom of the presidential list.”
“Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?,” Consortium News, June 3, 2009
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Editor, Consortium News, 1995-present
- Former Editor, Bloomberg News, 2000-2004
- Recipient, George Polk Award for National Reporting, 1984
- Former Investigative Journalist, Associated Press, Newsweek, and PBS Frontline
- Former Teacher, New York University Graduate School of Journalism
- Education:
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- Graduate, Colby College
- Graduate, Colby College
- Other:
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- In the 1980s, while at the Associated Press, Parry wrote many of the early stories that became known as the Iran-Contra Affair, including the first story identifying White House aide Oliver North as a go-between for secret Reagan administration support for the Nicaraguan contra rebels.
- In the 1980s, while at the Associated Press, Parry wrote many of the early stories that became known as the Iran-Contra Affair, including the first story identifying White House aide Oliver North as a go-between for secret Reagan administration support for the Nicaraguan contra rebels.
- Quoted in:
- Pro & Con Quotes: Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?