Talk:John McLaughlin (host)
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Senate Run
[edit]This:
His superiors denied him this, even though they did grant permission to fellow Jesuit Father Robert Drinan to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts
seems pointlessly argumentative. However, I'm not going to change it. I doubt that McLaughlin himself would let it slip past him.
If we knew why his superiors denied McLaughlin and not Drinan, and it was because of some patent bias, then that might be worth mentioning as such. But as it stands, they could have denied him for any number of reasons while allowing Drinan, and it's the article that sounds biased or at least a bit petulant.
Bovious (talk) 03:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- "Pointlessly argumentative" is your point of view. It's just a fact of history that in 1970, Drinan got permission and McLauglin did not. No one is speculating why. It was correct that I added this in 2005, and it is correct that the New York Times obituary mentions it as well in 2016. patsw (talk) 02:11, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Podcast
[edit]I'm guessing that the delay discussed is probably contractual. PBS local stations air shows at varied times. For example, my affiliate, KTCA Twin Cities airs McLaughlin group Sunday morning at 11 am, isn't it filmed Thursday or Friday? So they proably don't want to interfere with the local broadcasts.
Besides, this doesn't seem like a John McLaughlin issue, and it should be removed, and placed on that page, right? --TjoeC 16:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Concerns about this biography
[edit]Hi. I know enough about John McLaughlin to be dangerous, but I think there are some potential improvements. Firstly, I recall that he used to use the title "Washington Editor or the 'National Review'" in the mid-1980s (at least in 1986/87/88, but likely longer) to describe his position on his TV show. I cannot recall when he dropped that title. Can anyone add detail on his work with the "National Review"? Secondly, I don't know the current status, but I think his show was run on commercial TV outside of Washington. In NY and Boston, I had seen it on NBC affiliates. So the stuff about it being on public TV and the podcasts having commercials is not comprehensive. I am sorry, I don't have the full detail on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.19.226 (talk) 21:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Rewrite
[edit]The article opens strangely (in the middle of a discussion of the show) and is incomplete. Much of the info requested in the discussion above is on the official bio. I'm going to do a bunch of clean up.
There will still be plenty of room for improvement. There's not much about his early years. TjoeC (talk) 17:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
BLP status change
[edit]Due to the death of this person, the BLP status of this article has changed. This does not mean that unsourced material that would contravene the Biography of Living Persons rules can be added to this article Capitalistroadster (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
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