Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins (born August 30, 1944, as Mary Tyler Ivins) is a newspaper columnist from Austin, Texas.
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BiographyHer first newspaper job was in the complaint department of the Houston Chronicle, followed by the position of sewer editor. She went on to the Minneapolis Tribune, where she was the first woman police reporter in that city and, later, the reporter who covered a beat called Movements for Social Change, where she notes that she wrote about "militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers." In 2003 she coined the term Great Liberal Backlash of 2003. CancerIn 1999, Ivins was diagnosed with stage III inflammatory breast cancer. The cancer recurred in 2003 and again in late 2005. In January 2006 she reported that she was again undergoing chemotherapy.[link]Plagiarism and incorrect statisticsIn 1995, humorist Florence King wrote in a The American Enterprise column that Ivins had plagiarized King's work and mis-stated a quotation from a King column in a 1988 Mother Jones article.[#endnote_plagiarist] Ivins apologized in a letter to King. King published Ivins's letter and King's own reply in a later article.[#endnote_author] Critics of Ivins point to what they see as other instances of her using writers' words without acknowledgement. [link] One such controversy involved Ivins' description, without attribution, of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as "a condom stuffed with walnuts," a phrase used by Australian journalist Clive James to describe Schwarzenegger some fifteen years earlier. [link]In a 2005 column, Ivins incorrectly stated that Iraqi civilian deaths due to the Iraq War exceeded the number of Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussein. Ivins later printed an apologetic retraction.[#endnote_grid] Bibliography
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