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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.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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Ben Bagdikian
Born:
January 30, 1920
Died:
March 11, 2016
(aged 96)
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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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