Reality Bites: When Grins Turn Into Grimaces - Roll Call

Reality Bites: When Grins Turn Into Grimaces

By Richard Connor and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted January 29, 2009 at 1:00am

Richard L. Connor, the chief executive officer and ownership partner of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Publishing Co., has been a newspaperman for 40 years. He has written a column for most of his career, and has served on two Pulitzer Prize for Journalism nominating committees.

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