Reporter who revealed * DUI now a truck driver

[paineinthearse]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/01/17/embracing_the_open_road_of_life?pg=full

Embracing the open road of life
Unlikely trucker leaves desk behind
By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | January 17, 2005

SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- A slender man bounded intensely down an icy patch of parking lot here Monday night, kicking the tires of an 18-wheeler as he readied the behemoth for a journey down the star-lit highways that have become his unexpected lifeline. After 30 years as a reporter, 29 of them at the Portland Press Herald, Ted Cohen six months ago embraced a new profession: trucking.

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Cohen's change is at once radical and logical -- propelled by a boyhood fascination with trucks and necessitated by a career crisis. Cohen, who is 53, was the reporter who during the 2000 presidential campaign learned of George W. Bush's arrest for drunken driving in Kennebunkport 24 years earlier. He told an editor at the newspaper of his find, he said, but the paper never published the story. When the arrest was uncovered by a Portland television station and a barrage of news reports followed three months later, the Portland paper's decision to ignore the story became a story unto itself. Cohen said the Press Herald made him the scapegoat in the matter. In March of 2004, Cohen left the paper, by his account, after being demoted and punished for a number of alleged infractions. Press Herald editors, including the manager editor, Eric Conrad, declined to comment.

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[eek]

1. at least he's still alive.

n/t

[MADem]

2. The empire struck back, apparently n/t

[eg101]

3. perfect symbol of the supine media

They made an example. And now they are publicizing the example: "Look, see what we did to him. We can do the same to you."

[Ruby Romaine]

4. KICK! we need a fund for people who have gone against bush- I'll bet the

guy from Sinclair Broadcasting never got another job.

[Rapcw]

5. wow n/t