A veteran pundit and writer, Institute for Liberty Senior Fellow Peter Roff takes on the political process as only a person who lived it can. For five years, Mr. Roff was the senior political writer for United Press International, the venerable wire service in operation for more than 100 years.
From his keyboard, he regularly filled the wire with hard news, breaking stories, and news analysis. While at UPI, he worked on some of the biggest political stories of the late 20th Century including the September 11, 2001 attack by terrorists on Washington, D.C., and New York City as well as the election and post-election contretemps surrounding the infamous Bush v. Gore presidential contest.
He served as a member of UPI’s White House team, writing the wire’s weekly “White House Watch” column in addition to “The Peter Principles,” a weekly column on politics and culture, “That’s Politics!” an insider’s look at political events in Washington and around the United States, and “Face Off,” a regular debate side-by-side which ran for several years.
A frequent commentator on politics and public issues, Mr. Roff appeared on a variety of radio and television programs including “CBS News Overnight,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher,” CNBC’s “The Dennis Miller Show,” Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “The Big Story with John Gibson,” “The Michael Reagan Radio Show,” “C-SPAN Washington Journal,” “Battleline with Alan Nathan,” and once appeared on the primetime ABC series “Spin City,” playing himself in a cameo role.
Mr. Roff’s observations have also been quoted in major publications including USA Today, The New York Times, the online version of The Wall Street Journal, and National Review.
Peter Roff
For Anna Nicole and Marshall Family: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
by Peter RoffAnna Nicole Smith, the dysfunctional former Playmate of the Year whose very public life ended all too tragically, may finally be getting some measure of justice. The state attorney’s office in Broward County, Florida, said last week it was reopening its investigation into her February 2007 death by what had been deemed “an accidental overdose.”
The news comes less than two weeks after two doctors and Howard K. Stern, the former Playboy and Guess Jeans model’s erstwhile Svengali, were arrested by California authorities on charges they illegally conspired to provide Smith with thousands of prescription pills. Broward State Attorney spokesman Ron Ishoy, told the press his office was taking a fresh look at things. This includes examining the evidence collected by California officials to see “where it might lead in relation to Ms. Smith’s death.” (more…)
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Your Best Form of Entertainment Technology
by Peter RoffHollywood used to proclaim that “Movies are still your best form of entertainment.”
That it felt it necessary to do so was in reaction to its declining share of the entertainment market against the little box, television, where you could see things for free and in the comfort of one’s own home.
Hollywood assumed an adversarial stance against television right from the beginning, doing everything from encouraging stars under its control to stay off TV to changing the aspect ratio of movies so that they no longer matched the dimensions of the television screens. Yet think of how different things might have been, for television and for the Hollywood studio system, had the moguls of the 1950s decided that television represented not a threat, but a new outlet, a new source of profits in which everyone would have a chance to wet their beaks. (more…)
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