Doug Ireland
Doug Ireland (born March 31, 1946 - October 26, 2013 in New York City ) was an American journalist and well-known blogger . His subject areas were politics and media with a focus on gay politics. His articles appeared in numerous newspapers. Ireland lived and worked in New York City.
Career
Ireland's career began with the New York Post under Dorothy Schiff . The newspaper was considered the most liberal daily newspaper in the USA at the time. Ireland lived in France for ten years and has since been a supporter of the French philosopher Michel Onfray .
Ireland regularly wrote columns for Village Voice magazines , the New York Observer and the Paris daily Liberation . He was also the author of POZ magazine , a magazine for New York's AIDS patients, and In These Times magazine .
From a critical leftist perspective, Ireland published a news archive about the Clinton administration called the Clinton Watch column . He was considered a severe critic of the two Gulf Wars of Presidents Busch Senior and Junior as well as the US invasion of Afghanistan .
Ireland was a member of the left-wing Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), for which he was elected to the National Council in 1963 at the age of seventeen . For one year 1963/64 he worked as a national for the SDS. From 1964 Ireland worked against the Vietnam War . As an employee of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council AFL-CIO , United Auto Workers and the National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace , he organized protests against the Vietnam War.
For the presidential candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy , he organized his election campaign in the Middle Atlantic region after he was recruited as a representative of the Dump Johnson movement by McCarthy, who was also a member there. After coordinating work for McCarthy at the 1968 National Assembly of Democrats , during which he helped organize demonstrations against police arbitrariness in anti-Vietnam War protests, Ireland went to Long Island near New York City to meet Allard Lowenstein in his successful election campaign for the US Congress to support. Lowenstein is considered to be the founder of the Dump Johnson movement.
After working as a journalist for the New York Post and the cable radio service Community News Service (a minority-oriented news service for blacks and Latinos), he organized the successful anti-Vietnam War campaign by Bella Abzug in 1970 , which was then elected to the American House of Representatives. Ireland has worked as a journalist since then.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ireland, Doug |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and blogger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1946 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2013 |
| Place of death | New York City |