Ben H. Bagdikian, media critic and journalist with key role in Pentagon Papers case, dies at 96
Source: Washington Post
Ben H. Bagdikian, a key figure in the publication of the Pentagon Papers by The Washington Post in 1971, which resulted in a momentous legal victory supporting freedom of the press, who later became an influential educator and media critic, died March 11 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 96.
His wife, Marlene Griffith Bagdikian, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause.
Mr. Bagdikian had a multifaceted career as a reporter and editor, including a daring undercover mission for The Post when he posed as an inmate at a Pennsylvania prison while doing an investigative series on the penal system.
Perhaps his most significant contribution, however, came in 1971, when he was The Post’s assistant managing editor for national news. The New York Times had published excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a surreptitiously copied secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam since World War II.
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And now we have to listen to tripe from the Republicans about whether the President was born in this country or not.
The dialogue in this country has definitely went downhill over the last 40 years.
