![]() She went on to describe her negative experiences with legal cannabis in a JNew York Times op-ed, following up on this story in another op-ed in September 2014, this time describing a discussion of using consumable cannabis with her "marijuana Miyagi" Willie Nelson. In January 2014, Dowd recounted that after eating about one-fourth of a cannabis-infused chocolate bar while touring the legalized recreational cannabis industry, she was later told she should have only eaten one-sixteenth -but that this had not been in the instructions on the label. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was-sometimes-a pompous messenger for them. ![]() That's not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. For example, in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election she wrote that Democratic candidate "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating," while referring to the Democratic Party as the "mommy party." In a Fresh Dialogues interview years later, she said of Gore: ĭowd's columns have also been described as often being political cartoons that capture a caricatured view of the current political landscape with precision and exaggeration. For instance, in a Times video debate she said of the North Korean government that "you could look at a movie like Mean Girls and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting," drawing out a similarity between their reaction and high school girls with nuclear weapons who just wanted attention. Her interest in candidates' personalities earned her criticism from some early in her career, such as this: "She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy." īecause Dowd perceives her columns to be an exploration of politics, Hollywood, and gender-related topics, she often uses popular culture to support and metaphorically enhance her political commentary. For example, she has often referred to Bush as "W" and former Vice President Dick Cheney as "Big Time" and she has called former President Barack Obama " Spock" and "Barry." She also tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames. Her columns display a critical and irreverent attitude towards powerful, mostly political, figures such as former Presidents George W. ![]() ĭowd's columns have been described as letters to her mother, whom friends credit as "the source, the fountain of Maureen's humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take." Dowd herself has said, "She is in my head in the sense that I want to inform and amuse the reader." Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often polemical writing style. 43 on The Daily Telegraph 's list of the 100 most influential liberals in America in 2007, she was ranked No. She won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000, and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker (sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996, and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, for distinguished commentary. New York Times columnist ĭowd became a columnist on The New York Times op-ed page in 1995, replacing Anna Quindlen. ![]() In 1992, she became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting, and in 1994 she won a Matrix Award from New York Association for Women in Communications. In 1991, Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from Columbia University. Dowd began serving as correspondent in the Times Washington bureau in 1986. In 1983, Dowd joined The New York Times, initially as a metropolitan reporter. When the Star closed in 1981, Dowd worked for Time. ĭowd entered journalism in 1974 as a dictationist for the Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer. in English from the Catholic University of America. ![]() In 1969, Dowd graduated from Immaculata High School. Her mother, Margaret "Peggy" ( née Meenehan), was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, DC, police inspector. In 1999, Dowd received a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.ĭowd was born the youngest of five children in Washington, DC. She joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op-ed writer in 1995. Maureen Brigid Dowd ( / d aʊ d/ born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.ĭuring the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for The Washington Star and Time, writing news, sports and feature articles. ![]()
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