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| In 2009, in an article appearing in the ''Post'' entitled "Medical Marijuana Is An Insult to Our Intelligence," Lane wrote about Angel Raich, who was a plaintiff in a Supreme Court case claiming a right to medical marijuana. He issued a clarification to the article stating: ''An earlier version of this posting said Angel Raich claimed that each of the medical conditions cited in her lawsuit was life-threatening. She asked me to explain that she only contended that one of her conditions -- chronic weight loss due to an inability to keep food down -- was life-threatening. I am happy to oblige. She is about to undergo an operation to reduce her ], which is a benign brain tumor.''<ref>{{cite news| url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/10/medical_marijuana_is_an_insult.html | work=The Washington Post | title=Medical marijuana is an insult to our intelligence}}</ref> | |||
| In 2011, Lane wrote that he hoped that Democratic Congresswoman ], who was unable to speak as a result of ], would speak out against union workers in Wisconsin if she "could speak normally''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/tyranny_in_wisconsin_part_4.html | title=Tyranny in Wisconsin, Part 4 | publisher=Washington Post | accessdate=2011-02-21 }}</ref> | In 2011, Lane wrote that he hoped that Democratic Congresswoman ], who was unable to speak as a result of ], would speak out against union workers in Wisconsin if she "could speak normally''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/tyranny_in_wisconsin_part_4.html | title=Tyranny in Wisconsin, Part 4 | publisher=Washington Post | accessdate=2011-02-21 }}</ref> | ||
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Charles "Chuck" Lane is an American journalist and editor who is an editorial writer for The Washington Post and a regular guest on Fox News Channel. Lane was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999. After the New Republic, Lane went to work for the Post, where, from 2000 to 2009, he covered the Supreme Court of the United States and judicial system issues. He has since joined the newspaper's editorial page.
Early life and education
Charles Lane earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1983. As a Knight Fellow, he earned a Master of Studies in Law from Yale in 1997.
Career
Lane is a former foreign correspondent for Newsweek and served as the magazine's Berlin bureau chief. His coverage of the former Yugoslavia was featured in the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff.
In 1998 a scandal arose at The New Republic when fabricated reporting by Stephen Glass was discovered. Lane was promoted to "deal with the explosion of anger and derision caused by the exposure of Stephen Glass' defamatory lies. Peretz writes that Lane 'put the ship back on its course,' for which he was 'immensely grateful.'
Lane has taught journalism at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and at Princeton University.
In 2008 Lane published The Day Freedom Died, about the Colfax massacre of 1873 in Louisiana and its political repercussions during Reconstruction, including the resulting Supreme Court case, United States v. Cruikshank.
Controversies
In 2011, Lane wrote that he hoped that Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was unable to speak as a result of having been shot in the head a few weeks earlier, would speak out against union workers in Wisconsin if she "could speak normally.
Lane's statement was criticized by some bloggers, with James Wolcott simply saying he wished Lane would "chuck off."
Popular culture
The 1998 journalism scandal at The New Republic was portrayed in the 2003 film Shattered Glass. Lane was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard.
Also in 2003, Glass himself published a "biographical novel" entitled "The Fabulist" about his career of journalistic fabrication. A fictionalized version of Chuck Lane, "Robert Underwood" was a major character in the "novel". Reviewing the book for the Washington Post, Chris Lehmann wrote that the Underwood character "is meant to induce in-the-know readers to think poorly of Charles Lane."
Notes
- Lane, Charles. "Full Court Press". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
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- "Crimes of War Project The Book - Contributors". The Crimes of War Project. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
- "Lies, damn lies and fiction". Forbes. 1998-05-11.
- http://prospect.org/article/my-marty-peretz-problem-and-ours
- "Tyranny in Wisconsin, Part 4". Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- "The Wrong Lane". Washington Monthly. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- "Helpful WaPo Columnist Tells Us What Giffords Would Think About Wisconsin". Wonkette. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- "Lost Weekend". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2011-03- -02.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Lehmann, Chris (13 May 2003). "Stephen Glass's Novel, More Than Half Empty". The Washington Post.
External links
- Marshall Poe, "Interview with Charles Lane", New Books in History, 7 Aug 2008
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