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`Anonymous' finds other side of spotlight too hot

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19961009
Author:LOIS BLINKHORN

Joe Klein, the Newsweek columnist who was unmasked last summer as Anonymous, author of the wildly successful novel about the 1992 presidential campaign, "Primary Colors," quickly learned what it's like to be on the other side of the white-hot media spotlight.

He didn't like it.

"The world didn't need to know who Anonymous was. We should allow public figures some privacy," Klein told an audience of journalists Tuesday at a financial writing seminar sponsored by Northwestern University and Strong Capital Management at the company's headquarters in Menomonee Falls. "I found myself saying things ...

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