Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert Scheer

A newsroom fight is hiding inside that mild phrase "don't have room". Scheer frames the decision as less a matter of taste than of institutional bad faith: they know the column matters, they know it lands with readers, they know it has a track record of being "right" - and they cut it anyway. The repetition of "They know" is a drumbeat meant to foreclose the usual excuses (budgets, page counts, shifting priorities) and replace them with a darker diagnosis: editorial gatekeeping that treats public resonance as an inconvenience.

The line also smuggles in a theory of power. "Resonates in the community" isn't just a compliment; it's a claim about journalism's proper constituency. Scheer is invoking a model where legitimacy flows upward from readers, not downward from owners, advertisers, or prestige-seeking editors. By emphasizing "once week" and "one column", he makes the sacrifice sound comically small, which sharpens the implied indictment: if they can't tolerate even that sliver of dissent, the problem isn't space - it's control.

"Consistently got it right" does double duty. It's self-defense against the easy smear that columnists are provocateurs, and it's an accusation that the institution prefers being safe, aligned, or access-friendly over being accurate. The likely context is a familiar American media moment: consolidation, shrinking newsrooms, and the quiet sanitizing of voices that organize a community rather than flatter an elite consensus. The sentence is built to sting because it turns a bureaucratic rationale into an ethical failure.