Richard M. Cohen
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Richard M. Cohen is a author source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.
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Richard Cohen's AllSides Bias Rating™ is 'lean left.' Looking back at the past 10 of his Washington Post articles, 9 criticize President Trump.
Background
Cohen writes a personal blog called Journey Man, mainly to discuss his experience with Multiple Sclerosis and create space for himself and others to share thoughts and recommendations about living with the disease. The About page there informs his personal history, starting out with his graduation from Simpson College in 1970, from which he went to Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism through 1976. In 1985, he became a Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics until 1989, when he became a visiting professor of writing at John's Hopkins University as well as a Journalist in Residence at Univeristy California Berkeley.
Parallel to his education, Cohen entered the world of network television news in 1971 at ABC News, where he was assistant producer of Issues and Answers and floor producer the next year at both the 1972 political conventions. There began his twenty-two years on network television. He produced PBS's McNeil Lehrer Report until 1979, when he produced the Evening News with Walter Cronkite at CBS. His time at CBS was long, allowing him to cover Poland's solidarity trade union movement, the Middle East and Central American wars, along with the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns here at home. In 1989, he produced Illusions of News with Bill Moyers for PBS and then, in 1992, Bill Clinton of Arkansas for CNN.
Like many others, Cohen has also authored several books. In 2004, Cohen published Blindsided, which covered his experience with both cancer and Multiple Sclerosis. Four years later, in 2008, Cohen came out with Stong at the Broken Places, also about his experiences with illness. I Want to Kill the Dog (2012) breaks away as a comedic tale of really wishing to kill his dog, but also a rumination on how to deal with difficulties - sometimes it's just best to laugh. He has also written a semi-weekly column called Chronically Upbeat for AARP.
Today, Cohen writes for The Washington Post and continues his blog, Journey Man.
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The Washington Post: Richard Cohen
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