Joe Klein

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Joe Klein (2011)

Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946 in New York City ) is an American journalist , columnist and author . He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and participated in the prestigious Guggenheim Scholarship . He was best known for his novel Primary Colors (English title With all might ), in which he portrayed the election campaign of then President Bill Clinton . Since 2003 he has been writing regularly for the US news magazine TIME . He has also worked for various US media such as the New Republic , the New York Times , the Washington Post , Life and Rolling Stone Magazine .

Early career

Klein completed his studies at the Hackley School and at the University of Pennsylvania with a diploma in American civilization (dt. About American Society ) from. In 1969 he began his career as a journalist with Essex County Newspapers and The Peadbody Times in Massachusetts . In 1972 he reported for WGBH Boston ; until 1974 he was also editor of The Real Paper in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . From 1975 to 1980 he was the editor of Rolling Stone Magazine ; from 1975 to 1977 he was its office manager in Washington. After an interview with the actor and director Tom Laughlin , he became friends with this one. Because of this, Klein had an appearance as a reporter in Laughlin's film Billy Jack Goes to Washington in 1977 .

1980 Klein published the book Woody Guthrie: A Life in 1980 and 1984 Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam . From 1987 to 1992 he was a political columnist for New York magazine , where he received the Peter Kihss Award for reporting on the 1989 New York Mayoral race. Since May 1992 he wrote the Public Lives column for Newsweek , which won the 1994 National Headliner Award . With Klein's collaboration, Newsweek also won a National Headliner Award for reporting on Bill Clinton's 1992 win . In addition, Klein served as a consultant for CBS News from 1992 to 1996 .

Primary Colors

In January 1996, Klein anonymously published the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics . It is based on the primaries (primaries) of the Democrats in 1992. The book was nine weeks, the number one on the bestseller list of the New York Times . Some people, including Clinton's previous speechwriter David Kusnet, and later Professor Donald Foster, who teaches at Vassar College , identified Klein as the author of the work. They used literary analyzes and compared the book with Klein's previous works. However, Klein lied that he wasn't the author of the book and publicly condemned Forster. He continued to deny that he was the author on Newsweek , and even speculated that another author wrote the book. The journalist David von Drehle asked Klein in an interview if he wanted to vouch for his journalistic credibility with his denial, to which Klein agreed. On July 17, 1996, Klein finally admitted that the speculation that he was the author of the book had been correct.

Later career

In December 1996, he began writing his column Letter from Washington at the New Yorker . In 2002 he released The Running Mate . Another book, The Natural: Bill Clinton's Misunderstood Presidency , was published in 2002.

In January 2003 he started working for the news magazine Time . Since then he has written the column In the Area , in which he addresses both national and international topics. It was criticized that Klein resorted to wiretapping when reporting on the minority leader Nancy Pelosi and the democratic opposition. Time has already withdrawn the column several times.

On the Swampland blog of time.com Klein is regularly active as a blogger.

In November 2007, journalist Glenn Greenwald of the Internet magazine Salon wrote about some factual errors that he discovered in Klein's article on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In it, Klein reported that the Democratic version of the bill required the surveillance of any foreign terrorist target to be reviewed by the FISA court and therefore would give terrorists the same legal protection as the Americans.

Time later published a comment regarding this announcement . It states that Klein only wrote in the original version of the article that the democratic version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows a review of individual foreign surveillance targets . Republicans would supposedly believe the bill could be interpreted that way, but Democrats would not. Greenwald noted that the text of the legislation did not require individual targets and that Time's response ignored this fact. Klein replied that he had neither time nor legal background to judge who was right.

Greenwald later reported that Time had turned down requests by two congressmen to try to present Klein's false statements as correct. Greenwald also reported that Senator Russ Feingold of Time was informed that his letter that Klein's theories disproved, would be published in another issue.

Political opinions

In The Natural , his book on Clinton's presidency, Klein assessed Clinton's tenure differently. In his book, he writes that the conventions of journalism prevent him from adjusting too neatly into a political niche (although his preferences as a columnist for the New Yorker and Newsweek are evident). Klein's description of Clinton's presidency was also a detailed examination of the moderate democratic positions promised by the Democratian Leadership Council .

Klein is an admirer of George W. Bush , although he says he doesn't always share his opinion (e). In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, he said of Bush:

“Let me say that of all the major politicians I've covered in presidential politics in the last two or three times around, he is the most likely to stick with an issue, even if the polls are bad, and to govern from the gut as you said. I don't always agree with the decisions that he makes, but I think he is an honorable man, and when I've criticized him, I've tried to criticize him on the substance, and certainly not on his personality, because I really like the guy. "

"Let me say that of all the high-ranking politicians I have covered in recent years, he is the only one who continues to address his problems even if the polls are bad [...]. I don't always agree with him, but I think he's an honorable man and when I've criticized him I've tried to criticize his opinion, but certainly not his personality, because I really like the guy. "

- Joe Klein

Max Boot , a scholar who studies American foreign policy, and the director of the Anti-Defamation League , Abraham Foxman , were among the critics of Klein's view. Klein is also often criticized by media critic Bob Somerby .

Klein has been criticized by some conservative media outlets for remarking that Fox News host Glenn Beck , Republican Senator Tom Coburn and former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin were inciting sedition .

Private life

Klein lives in Westchester County , New York with his wife, daughter Sophie, and son Teddy . He also has two grown sons.

In March 2008, he caught attention when he made a comment about the reporting by journalists Tim Russert ( NBC ), Chris Matthews and Maureen Dowd ( The New York Times ) about Hillary Clinton , who was seen by many Americans as anti-Catholic. He later apologized for this, although u. a. media critic Bob Somerby described Klein's remark as correct.

bibliography

  • 1980: Woody Guthrie: A Life. AA button , New York.
    • Woody Guthrie: the biography. German translation by Martin Bauer and Christa Hohendahl. Ullstein , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-60084-0 .
  • 1984: Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam. AA button, New York.
  • 2000: The Running Mate. Dial Press, New York.
  • 2002: Natural: the misunderstood presidency of Bill Clinton. Doubleday, New York.
    • The natural talent. The misjudged presidency of Bill Clinton. German translation by Hainer Kober. Siedler , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-88680-786-X .
  • 2006: Politics lost: how American democracy was trivialized by people who think you're stupid. Doubleday, New York.
    • The End of Politics: How Pollsters and Election Strategists Ruin Democracy. German translation by Hartmut Schickert. Propylaea , Munich 2008, ISBN 3-549-07340-2 .
  • 2006: Primary colors: a novel of politics. Randomhouse Trade Paperbacks, New York.
    • With all my might. German translation by Uda Strätling, Brigitte Jakobeit and Christiane Buchner. Ullstein, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-548-26805-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Short biography. time.com, September 23, 2003, archived from the original on January 19, 2011 ; accessed on August 1, 2012 .
  2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Joe Klein. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Biography Senior Editorial Staff. (No longer available online.) TIME on siite.com, archived from the original on January 30, 2011 ; accessed on August 1, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.siite.com
  4. ^ Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1996. hawes.com, accessed on August 1, 2012 (English, see February 18 ff.).
  5. ↑ Don Foster enlightens readers with 'Author Unknown'. CNN.com , December 6, 2000, accessed August 13, 2011 .
  6. ^ Tod Lindberg: The Media's True Colors. July 29, 1996, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  7. ^ Doreen Carvajal: Columnist's Mea Culpa: I'm Anonymous. The New York Times , July 18, 1996, accessed August 13, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Joe Klein: The Hug. (Sample article). New Yorker , December 16, 1996, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  9. ^ Joe Klein: Standard & Poor's Downgrades Itself. Swampland Blog. time.com, August 6, 2011, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Joe Klein: And Lower ... Swampland Blog. time.com, October 30, 2008, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Joe Klein, Republicans' Debt Ceiling Charade Is Downright Dangerous. Swampland Blog. time.com, July 28, 2011, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  12. ^ Glenn Greenwald at salon.com, December 6, 2007 , accessed November 14, 2010.
  13. ^ The Tone-Deaf Democrats. time.com, November 21, 2007, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Joe Klein: FISA: More Than You Want to Know. time.com, November 26, 2007, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  15. ↑ Glenn Greenwald: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears. Salon.com, December 4, 2007, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  16. ↑ Glenn Greenwald: Various items (2). Salon.com, December 6, 2007, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Inbox. Reply from Senator Russ Feingold. time.com, December 6, 2007, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  18. ^ The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by J. Klien, Broadway Publishing, 2003
  19. ↑ Mr. Faith-Based's Sordid (Recent) Past. Retrieved March 25, 2013 .
  20. ^ Andy Barr: Yes, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck 'seditious'. politico.com, April 19, 2010, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  21. ↑ Joe Klein: Coburn Heartburn. Swampland Blog. time.com, December 21, 2009, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  22. ^ Jim Geraghty: The Campaign Spot. nationalreview.com, April 19, 2010, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Matt Welch: Joe Klein: The Howling Beast on the Borderline Separating Speech From Sedition, Since at Least 2009. reason.com, April 19, 2010, accessed August 28, 2011 .
  24. ↑ Bob Somerby: Little's gaffe! Joe Klein committed a classic gaffe about one part of the press corps. dailyhowler.com, March 4, 2008, accessed August 28, 2011 .
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City