Seven minutes before police were called to his Clayton, Missouri, home to investigate the sound of a single gunshot, Tom Schweich called a friendly editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and calmly offered the paper an exclusive interview for later that day. "Gimme a call and let me know if you can have someone here at 2:30," Schweich, 54, a leading contender in Missouri's 2016 gubernatorial race, told editorial page editor Tony Messenger in that Thursday-morning voicemail message. By the time Messenger listened to the recording, Schweich was dead - "Everything at this point suggests suicide," says Clayton Police Chief Kevin Murphy...
- 2/27/2015
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
Seven minutes before police were called to his Clayton, Missouri, home to investigate the sound of a single gunshot, Tom Schweich called a friendly editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and calmly offered the paper an exclusive interview for later that day. "Gimme a call and let me know if you can have someone here at 2:30," Schweich, 54, a leading contender in Missouri's 2016 gubernatorial race, told editorial page editor Tony Messenger in that Thursday-morning voicemail message. By the time Messenger listened to the recording, Schweich was dead - "Everything at this point suggests suicide," says Clayton Police Chief Kevin Murphy...
- 2/27/2015
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, @sswestfall
- PEOPLE.com
George Will's column about rape trivialized sexual assault victims, St. Louis Post-Dispatch op-ed editor Tony Messenger said Sunday, and that's why the newspaper dropped his column. In an interview Sunday with CNN's Brian Stelter during “Reliable Sources,” Messenger said that the paper had considered dropping Will even before that column. “We had a lot of readers very angry and very hurt,” Messenger said. “It caused us to go back and take a look at it, and it reinforced our previous decision that he had lost a little bit of speed off his fastball, and it caused us to make the decision a.
- 6/22/2014
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
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