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Carl Golden: "Taking on the news media - economically wounded as it is - was nonsensical in the extreme." (Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

Carl Golden served as press secretary for Republican Gov. Thomas Kean for eight years and as communications director for Republican Gov. Christie Whitman for three years. He is currently a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.

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