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Editor and opinion columnist at The Daily Star. Email me at rcairns@thedailystar.com. @thedailystar

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Robert Cairns has been a radio and print journalist for a very long time.

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Robert Cairns: The First Amendment to the Constitution matters, as well

Robert Cairns: The First Amendment to the Constitution matters, as well

If Barack Obama's administration had assaulted the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution the way Donald T…

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Bob Cairns: Pence stunt should anger everybody

Bob Cairns: Pence stunt should anger everybody

Vice President Mike Pence pulled a publicity stunt last weekend and it did not go over quite as well as he ho…

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Bob Cairns: Happy holidays! I really mean that

Bob Cairns: Happy holidays! I really mean that

Well, it's started. It seems we can no longer have a holiday season without some proponents of one particular…

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Robert Cairns: Shooting brings opportunity to tone things down

Robert Cairns: Shooting brings opportunity to tone things down

Like many in this nation, I was shocked and angered by the shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise and sever…

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Robert Cairns: Shooting brings opportunity to tone things down

Robert Cairns: Shooting brings opportunity to tone things down

Like many in this nation, I was shocked and angered by the shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise and sever…

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Articles by Robert Cairns

Articles by Robert Cairns

A landing page for my articles published at The Watershed Post, an online newspaper in the Catskill Mountains…

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Robert Cairns: CBS News, once the standard, is ruined

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By Robert Cairns 
| Yahoo
The wanton, deliberate destruction of CBS News makes me simultaneously sad and angry. The "Tiffany Network" is deeply tarnished these days, after its takeover by billionaire Trump-backers Larry and David Ellison, whose company, Skydance, merged with Paramount, which owned many things, including CBS. Skydance immediately installed Bari Weiss, a right-wing blogger with no television experience, as its editor-in-chief and bought her "The Free Press" online newsletter for $150 million.
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CBS News, once the standard, is ruined

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By Robert Cairns 
| Bluefield Daily Telegraph
The wanton, deliberate destruction of CBS News makes me simultaneously sad and angry. The “Tiffany Network” is deeply tarnished these days, after its takeover by billionaire Trump-backers Larry and David Ellison, whose company, Skydance, merged with Paramount, which owned many things, including CBS. kAm$<J52?46 :>>65:2E6=J :?DE2==65 q2C: (6:DD[ 2 C:89E\H:?8 3=@886C H:E9 ?@ E6=6G:D:@?
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Robert Cairns: CBS News, once the standard, is ruined

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By Robert Cairns 
| Press-Republican
The wanton, deliberate destruction of CBS News makes me simultaneously sad and angry. The “Tiffany Network” is deeply tarnished these days, after its takeover by billionaire Trump-backers Larry and David Ellison, whose company, Skydance, merged with Paramount, which owned many things, including CBS. kAm$<J52?46 :>>65:2E6=J :?DE2==65 q2C: (6:DD[ 2 C:89E\H:?8 3=@886C H:E9 ?@ E6=6G:D:@?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Part-time reporter at a weekly newspaper.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

In every way.

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