“You know, you can’t really have friends in this job,” Bob remarked a time or two, and didn’t bother spelling it out: As editorial-page editor, you can be loyal to a few principles, to the paper, the readers and the craft, plus maybe a wife and kids; stretch it any further and you’ll find you’ve…
R.I.P. Bob McManus: a newsman’s newsman

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