Safire will give up Op-Ed page column in The New York Times
William Safire, the ultra-conservative Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since 1973, will write his final column for the page on Jan. 24, 2005, the paper announced yesterday. Mr. Safire, however, will continue to write his Sunday column, On Language, which has appeared in The Times Magazine since 1979. Mr. Safire, 74, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1978. Before joining The Times, he served as a senior White House speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon." It will be difficult for Bill Keller, NYT editor to find someone as conservative as William Safire, but nothing impossible in today's american media landscape: why not try a Fox News executive?
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