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Michael Wilbon

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“First of all, I hope I'm worthy of that praise from you. There's, as you know, there's a kinship among people from Chicago, period. And then even stronger bonds when people have had ties to the South side. And so that I know that who I am and what I am has a lot to do with all the things I am. And, you know, a great part of that is produced by what happened to me in that city, the people I believe in, the institutions that are part of me. I have an apartment in Chicago. I come back whenever I can. If somebody says, where are you from? I do not say I'm from Washington, D.C., though I have lived there for 43 of my 64 years at this point. Arizona is a part-time thing. I love it. And part of the reason I love it is because there's so many damn Chicago ones here.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Braun or mag All those guys. And so, yeah, so Denver, because of Jokic and Jamal Murray, and they just have, they just kind of have it.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's just really wonderful to be able to have the access to that and to people like LeBron. Michael was great for that. Michael Jordan was great for that at 8.30 in the morning if the Bulls had a shoot around. You got there early. And Michael would ask us to, what do you think about so-and If Beat didn't like the answer, you were going to be in for it. It was great because he liked going back and forth, and it still happens. Can't show you the text messages, but it happens now. You know, we're both 60 years old plus. And it'll be, what do you think of so-and-so? What? And I will ask him as often as I can, hey, what about this guy? And so, you know, Jokic is one of those players that great players like Michael and LeBron. Like two or three years ago, they just said, This guy has greatness in him. What?”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew it was great. I just saw that clip to Who's, you know, because players, when you get one of the great things about being behind the curtain with a press pass is getting to talk to players on stuff that's never on the record. Now, that would have been because a camera caught it, but you can just be in practice sometimes and somebody will say, what do you think about so-and-so? I don't know. What do you think about this guy? And you get unvarnished answers about things. And that's the reason why you go to the gym with these courses.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's the best player in the world. He's the best player in the world, period. Right now, look, I voted for embedded, David, for MVP. Now, I voted for Jokic three years ago when he, one of them. And so between Giannis and Embede and Jokic, you can't go wrong. You're right.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jimmy Butler had that already. And so for him to then have it fully drawn out by Pat Riley in the culture of the Miami Heat. What they did. They come closer to maxing out than a lot of teams in the NBA that have more talent.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was drafted kind of for the sole purpose of getting in LeBron James's face and stopping LeBron James for the greater good of the Bulls, which they couldn't finish off. But Jimmy was. Born into that Derek star, and Tibbs was the ringmaster and kind of Pat Riley Light, if you will.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jimmy fits that Jimmy Butler on draft night. I was there in Chicago. Did the draft, but it must have been in New York, but I was there because he was drafted by Chicago”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, part of the Miami Boston story has to do with Boston's failings through three games. And Boston's inability to play with that signature Celtic style, teamwork. They didn't do it. Unselfishness. They weren't selfish. They took turns. They weren't a team different. And in part of it has to do with Miami and the culture they've instilled with Pat Riley down to Eric Spulster and Will and what that means. And Pat Riley is famous for all those things. And”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was before that. And so there's so many other things he's done. It's like Michael Jordan at that point of his life. I didn't need Michael to tell me who to vote for. And so that has stuck with him Republicans wear shoes too. Where in the meantime, Michael Jordan has now in the last five to ten years put his might in that financial and otherwise behind more programs that have benefited more people who probably identify with being sort of old school south side i'm using that term advisedly democrats that michael has been completely unafraid to associate himself with all of that and i've talked to him about it recently just when he's there are times where he's done things for healthcare and i've called him up and i said dude this needs to be publicized in a greater ways like i don't care I'm just doing it”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The changing, the turning of that into something villainous is too bad, and people will say, well, I'm biased and I am because I was involved in that telecast. But LeBron James was 25 years old. Is it my favorite moment? No. Do I find it villainous and something that is regrettable? No. Find it almost just a footnote. It isn't.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what Charles' point was. That's just lazy bullshit. And you know, the person in your neighborhood, it might be the postman. Might be a better role model. Your teacher, a clergyman, a lot. Any number of people, say your uncle. Just goes out and earns a living could be so, but yes, some of them were very much, not just role models. They were central, as you said, David, too. They were central to the civil rights movement. All of them were central to that.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, and Charles's point was don't necessarily make me a role model. Me, meaning athletes in general, I am not necessarily a role model. Charles very much is. But the point was, I am not automatically one because I'm an athlete.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Jim Brown and Bobby Mitchell Know that look that was people talking about America's team, the Cleveland Browns, and then the Cowboys, because the Cowboys drafted necessarily people from small black colleges. Nobody else, big, big, big city teams. I don't know the Giants and the Bears and the Packers were doing that. The Cowboys were doing it more than anybody, but the Cleveland Browns did it. Cleveland Browns did it, and the Cleveland Browns were beloved by black America. And so I get it.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No cell phones idea the car return a phone call to my hotel room since 1991. I drove up. I went there. I thought there would be some uniformed LAPD or personal security or something. We're talking about notorious open gang leaders whose gangs are involved in the burning of Los Angeles. There's nobody on the door, David. Jim Brown said you will not bring these things into my home. You will not bring your guns and knives into my home. So lay them down. Guess what?”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is insane And so I was able to get in contact with Jim and Jim Brown invited me to his house, gave me directions back in the pre-GPS days”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is long after he retired. Jim Brown retired, I was seven, so I didn't remember seeing him carry the ball a little bit as a little boy, but not really. I got to know Jim Brown as Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns formerly, and oh my God, this intimidating figure. And Jim Brown, who could organize anything and tell people to do anything. And I went to, I was in Southern California covering in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots, if you will, if I can call them that. My sports senator, George Solomon wisely brilliantly sent me out there to make a connection between what was going on and the lack of recreational sporting opportunities for young African American men in South Central LA. I went out there, and the night I got there, Jim Brown was having the Crips and Bloods at his house, at his house.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was a movie star a successful movie star And also, I covered the NFL at a time where I was about the only black writer covering the league. And Jim Brow would literally walk up to say who the hell are you, and why are you here?”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I got to know Jim Brown because he wanted to be known. It was okay. Jim Brown wanted that. And he was not afraid of him.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Coach Thompson, who did let me in a lot, was intimidating like anybody else by Bill Russell just by being in his presence on the few times I was. And he did talk to me a few times because I was somebody that was okay with Coach Thompson. And Coach Auerback and Red Auberbach.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was Bill Russell's backup center for a couple years, and that was it. And so I got to absorb, if you will, Bill Russell through.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. I did not get to know Bill Russell at all personally because Bill didn't really want to be known. That wasn't his thing. I could observe and I was tapped into one of the people close-sessed to him, and that's John Thompson, is I wrote from.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it's over, and I have to live my peace with it. I have to live my peace with not being able to do what I once was probably pretty decent.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I miss writing, but writing's hard. I can't do it anymore. There are two things I regret not being able to do anymore. I took music lessons growing up. I can't play Mary Hadley Lance. Went away. I took lessons from eight to eighteen. I played pop and circumstance for my own high school graduation in St. Ignatius. And now I can't play Mary Hadelane. And I wrote, you know, I was a finalist for the Pillar Surprise, which is not a big deal to people like you, David. But in sports where nobody gets that far, That's a big”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wish I could see I was that smart. I stopped writing the post column on December 7, 2010. I can remember the date, and I don't remember anything because that's my father's birthday. That was my last column. You know, ESPN said to me, we can't have your best work appearing somewhere else all the time. You got to decide.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he's 15. I got a freshman in high school. We just finished freshman year, sophomore to be. And I'm running around trying to go to AAU games. And my peers are laughing at me, either just dads in the neighborhood who did this 15 years ago, or particularly my friends in the basketball world, coaches. And owners, and they're like, we did this. Where you been? We did this 15, 20 years ago, but, you know, he's 15 and there's no guarantee. I got friends as you do, David. You talked about it. We got friends who over the last few years, we're losing a trickle becomes a I'm not taking that for granted. And so now I think he can hit the golf ball further than I can. He's definitely, I couldn't beat him in any basketball endeavor. I used to be able to beat him in horse until about he was 12, and that's good. He's good little basketball player.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The same day, same day. Is why now, like an advertisement, I'm wearing my glucose monitor, my DEX comm set, I'm wearing that to tell me what my blood sugar is at all times. Because, yeah, because my mom and grandmother and, you know, such, we know now such a large percentage of our specific demographic suffers from diabetes, but a large percentage of America entirely. And people didn't know it don't know it, ignore it, all kinds of stuff. And so, you know. I did way too”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The set that we think if we navigate part of the world's. Landmines that we're going to step over them all. It doesn't work that way. And so I was warned.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I laughed because it was like a sitcom moment. I'm having an heart attack and I told my wife to wake up, he had to drive to the hospital. So, you know, that sort of was the first alarm to go off, to say you're not invincible, get your shit together. And the doctor sat on the side of my bed two mornings later, 48 hours later, and said, you're never going to see your child, the young boy that's about to be born, baby that's about to be born. You're never going to see him reach five years old if you don't do exactly what I'm telling you to do. So, you know, I sort of got religion at that point. You know, then, you know, you fall out of it because you go back to feeling you're invincible. But yeah, like a lot of people, like a lot of men, like a lot of specifically men of African American.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I've been running around the country feeling pretty invincible from 21 to 49. I was late, I got married at 39 almost at 49 in January, late January. Our son, Matthew, was two months from being born, two months from being born. And I had a heart attack right here in Scottsdale, right where I am now. Had a heart attack. It was not a massive heart attack. I got on a plane and flew from New York left the studio, flew across the country, got here, got in bed, woke up. It was like a Fred Sanford moment for people who were old enough where I'm like, I'm having an heart attack, right? And your hands over your left side of your chest.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Shot in the ambulance after answering the 911 call went to the wrong location and he bled out on a sidewalk near my home. Those two John Thompson, the late great John Thompson, told me that Ben Wilson was the greatest prospect he ever saw. A man who recruited successfully, Patrick Hilt, first player chosen in the draft. And John Thompson got to see Lynn Bias up close, like we all did locally in DC. So, David, I can't talk about Lynn Bias without getting emotional. I'm never going to outrun it. To get to a place where it doesn't impact me. And if you talk to, say, Jay Billis, who is the same class, and people used to get their names confused, Billis and Bias. If you talk to Jay Billis, he'll be the same way. If you talk to David Robinson, he'll be the same way. If you talk to Michael Jordan about it, he'll be the same way.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hold on a screen on the way to LA. I was taking a few days off after the draft, and my body was cold. I just literally, my body temperature declined. And I was cold all day. I flew to LA. I got off the plane and I was just no good. Was just no good for a long time, for days, because I knew Lynd Bice. I covered him. I knew him. I'm never going to outrun it. But Lyn Bias, you know, there were two great players we never saw at that time and they both died so young. Lynn Bias and Ben Wilson, speaking of the South side of show.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Immortal coach at Duke says that the two greatest players he ever saw in his time were Michael Jordan and Lynn Baias. And that's the consensus that everybody who saw Lenny play came to and of course died tragically two days after the draft of what we now believe is a cocaine overdose.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's going to arrive with Jordan. Kobe and LeBron didn't really have each other because they never met in the finals. They met in the regular season. But Byrd had magic, of course, and Russell had wilt. And there have been some great rivalries in the NBA, which is particularly made by rivalries. And for those of us, and I got to cover Lynn Bias, he was the second overall player chosen. But Lynn Bias was maybe the most talented of the draft. He was 6'8". He had the prettiest jump shot I've ever seen to this day. I saw him play against Jordan. I saw Lynn Bias dunk once at Coalfield House in College Park, and he landed on the shoulders of Brad Doherty 6'11. Landed on his shoulders. And Mike Shaszewski says.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Asked Bro, Chicago sometimes in the tribune. Telling her looks back at me and said, I know what he was saying. He goes, is he still out there? And I said, that's right. You're right, never mind. And of course the Bulls went on to win that game seven. And then win it. A championship. I think that was 97, their fifth. But yes, Jordan had things that none of the others had”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One two, he beat the Knicks and he beat the Pacers in conference finals, but he was never in a game seven in the finals. And he lost one. He lost one to the Pistons famously. But I remember game seven in Chicago and they're losing the Pacers by seven with about two minutes to play. And I'm freaked out. We're going to lose this game. And I'm a sports writer. I'm not supposed to be freaked out. I'm supposed to be sitting in the... Dispassionately covering the series and the game and the event. And I say out loud, oh my God, could lose this. And Rick Tellander looks back at me.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What LeBron didn't have some of the things Michael had, I remember sitting at a game, game seven against the Pacers. Michael Jordan only played three game sevens in his career. There's a great line out there when somebody says they got LeBron in the interview and Michael in the interview and they asked LeBron who's been in a bunch of game sevens. So what's it like to be in game seven? And Michael and LeBron tells him a long answer. Michael says, I'm sorry, what's game seven?”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he had great players. They weren't great when he got them. And this is one of my arguments against the LeBron is the goat thing. And LeBron, to me, doesn't Mount Rushmore of basketball. And on it, without any chance for removal, are Bill Russell, Irvin Johnson, and Michael Jordan. That fourth spot, sometimes I can talk myself into. Sometimes I can talk myself into it being Kareem, but most of the time I think it's LeBron.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Style of the day. He introduced a shoe. Word and magic were arguably as talented and they neither had a shoe. Julius Irving did not have a shoe. Jordan had a shoe. Some of its timing and luck of the time, and certainly for me like you is the luck of being born when we were. But Jordan, it's the greatness, it's the will. It was the, my God, the intimidating nature of it that other of his peers were intimidated.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's lots else. The signature way that he played, the way he looked. I mean, you got to remember, Jordan introduced three things to the American culture through his brilliant basketball genius that we weren't accustomed to. He introduced something as elemental now as I sit here with, a shaved head. He wasn't the first person to do it. My God, Sonny Listen had done it 20 years earlier, but he was the first to do it and sort of make it stick that everybody else then began to do it.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Gary Williams. Gary Williams was at American University long before Ohio State and then Maryland, Gary Williams was winning 26 games at a little place called American University.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He would have been a freshman, maybe in 83 because he graduated 87. I could see George Washington had a terrific team then with a proname Mike Brown who people shouldn't confuse with coach Mike Brown now but went to the tournament Catholic University Howard University they all had teams that played and competed and at some point went to the tournament and it was wow it was heaven to just cover college basketball in any given night in the coaches Lefty Drizel and”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, that sticks with all of us who are old enough to this day lend bias, of course, we're talking about. So let's just take the year 1983. I'm just picking 83. So, or the period, say, from 82 to 84. So in one, I can hop in my car on any night. I could leave the Washington Post newsroom. And if I left a little early, I could go to Charlottesville and see Ralph Sampson, only the three-time player of the year. There's never been anybody three-time player of the year since. The great Ralph Sampson down in Virginia is Charlottesville. I could go to College Park and see Lynn Bias. Could go to Georgetown and see Patrick Ewing. I could go to Annapolis and see David Robinson”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I tell Tony that a New Yorker he didn't want to hear it. And I'm like, you can talk about all this to the people if you want. Nobody, no single person in New York had the impact of Royco in Chicago. And I've lived east long enough to know and become friends with some of the great, great writers, newspaper writers, daily people in New York City. But nobody had the impact of Roiko on politicians and”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You had that kind of staff at the trip. I learned how to read reading the newspaper. Yes, it started with the sports section when I was five years old, got stare at the words until some of them made sense and then more of them and more of them and all of them. But I grew up reading the Sometimes and Tribune. My father didn't want Tribune in the house. So I had to read it outside. I had to read it on the front porch. That was the other newspaper south side.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And by the way, the internship class of that I mentioned 20 interns, Lucian Perkins and David Remnick and Isabel Wilkerson. I mean Wilkerson, people who I am like the least of. I am. You know, the decorated people, I think we had, you know, so Bob said to us, Look Some talent in this room, there's 20 of you, probably only three or four of you. Be able to stay and join the post as full time staff writers. I think it wound up being 12 of us stayed.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know it means something, it means more than any contemporary observation because, yes, you're right. I joined a staff that had Tony Kornheiser and Thomas Boswell and Dave Rid and Know so many others bury. Anybody in George Solomon was a sports senator that was the guy who I guess had an eye for talent because even when you come down years from that, David, and David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize winning. Colleague, of course, is Sally Jenkins, and there were so many”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And yeah, so I went there at a time where the post was still in the afterglow. Robert Redford would come, Bob Woodward. So, this is 19. Who's bigger than Robert Redford in Nobody, so he would come in, and the women particularly would just crowd around Woodward's office and wait till Redford got there. But then I got to know the actual people, not the actors and the people who comprised, in my view, and obviously the New York Times reporters and staffers had argued, but the greatest newspaper staff of its time.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then within three or four days, I'm sitting with Ben Bradley because he came into sports department to meet the two innovators.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I grew up delivering 92 newspapers on Wentworth and LaSalle in my neighborhood. House to house, and I just wanted to. All I wanted to do was write for the Sometimes or Tribune. That's all I wanted to do. That was my goal in my life. I delivered those papers. I wanted to work for one of them. They both turned me down. And I didn't even get to really grieve it over it because the post and newsweek both accepted me. So I was buoyed by that. And I got to the Washington Post in the afterglow of Watergate. I got there when the people greeting you. You know where our luncheon, my luncheon speaker was as the first day summer internship, June 13th, 1979, my intern speaker for the class of 20 interns was a man named Bob Woodward.”
2023-06-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 536 — Michael Wilbon · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source