He also spoke at Flagler s Forum on Government and Public Policy. The years spent covering national politics have worn on columnist Jack Germond to the point of physical deformity. But if Germond is shrinking and politics is to blame, he holds no grudge against his profession, one that he still calls marvelous. I ve been doing this all this time, and I still pick up the newspaper every day and look for my column, he said. I never wanted to be an editor, he added later.
Reporters have all the fun.
Only, the fun has waned over the years, and he spoke Tuesday night about what he calls the decline of American politics at Flagler s ongoing Forum on Government and Public Policy. It has been a steady decline. After a full year of a farcical debate over Monica Lewinsky, we have finally reached the bottom line, he wrote with partner Jules Witcover in their syndicated column. It is not a pretty picture. Little of politics today is, according to Germond.