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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

Ben Bagdikian

Ben Bagdikian

Ben Bagdikian

Born: January 30, 1920

Died: March 11, 2016 (aged 96)

Bio: Ben Haig Bagdikian was an Armenian-American educator and journalist. He was a significant American media critic and the dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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