<\/a>Gary Park and Jim Ruddle (1965)<\/p><\/div>\n
Q.<\/strong> Do you consider yourself first a sailor or a journalist?<\/em><\/p>\nA.<\/strong> Some would probably question either. Let's just say the only money I ever made on the water \u2014 and it was damned little \u2014 was when I was in the Coast Guard. But there was always a discernible purpose for what we did.<\/p>\nQ.<\/strong> Thinking of writing another novel?<\/em><\/p>\nA.<\/strong> The thought of a followup volume has been broached by me and others. We shall see. As a kid author, I don't want to burn out too quickly.<\/p>\nQ.<\/strong> What are you up to these days?<\/em><\/p>\nA.<\/strong> I live in Westchester County, New York, twenty miles from Manhattan and it might as well be Waycross, Georgia. I almost never go into the city.<\/p>\nQ.<\/strong> Any parting thoughts about the media?<\/em><\/p>\nA.<\/strong> My friend John Lane, son of famed Chicago Daily News city editor Clem Lane, and a highly-respected journalist in his own right, regularly joins me for coffee here in Rye, N.Y. We both feel that we were in at the beginning and for the best years of television journalism, and that we are comfortable in knowing that we are out of it now. It ain't the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-eight years after Jim Ruddle hoisted anchor and left local television news to sail the seas, he\u2019s as happy as ever about the course he navigated. Although Chicago lost an anchorman and commentator of exceptional intellect and gravitas, Ruddle found he had little tolerance for the trivialities of the business and little patience for bosses... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}