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It should be noted that very few of the articles are actually attributed to anyone. None of the newsletters CNN found made authorship clear. Kirchick himself wrote that ?with few bylines, it is difficult to know whether any particular article was written by Paul himself.? According to The Economist, ?It is impossible now to prove individual authorship of any particular item." Some have also pointed out that the breezy, hip, slang-littered journalese of the newsletters doesn't resemble Paul's style, the more dry and straightforward prose exhibited in numerous published works.
Yet there are some clues as to Ron Paul's role. We've established that the articles in question were written sporadically across a 4-year period from 1990-94. Yet only a newsletter from April 1978 containing a rant about the Trilateral Commission contains Paul's signature. And according to Kirchick, only the masthead of the March 1987 Investment Letter lists ?the Hon. Ron Paul? as ?Editor and Publisher."
The Ron Paul Investment Letter of 1988 acknowledges Paul as editor in a footer. Yet the next month, all direct mention of him is erased and Lew Rockwell is touted as editor. The one issue of the Political Report which Kirchick decided to publish that even contains a similar footer is the one from March 1990, which doesn't even cite an editor at all. That appears to be it. None of the offending newsletters claim Ron Paul as involved in publication.
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