On the O utside L ooking in By Hank Silverberg I confess. For 38 years I was a journalist. I got paid to write about politicians, government, criminals, crime fighters, corporations, celebrities, and just ordinary people who had an interesting story to tell. In many cases I was on the inside, getting information and facts that other people did not know until I reported it. I admit I was also a conservative journalist. Notice the small “ c . ” I don’t mean Conservative as in politics. I mean conservative as in doing it cautiously, the right way, with good solid information that was confirmed and attributed to sources who were named and quoted. My close friends and relatives and some former colleagues know where I s t and politically , but those who heard me on the radio or saw me on TV , did not know my politics. It never got into my work. If there was the slightest question about that, I always ran it by an editor o