Word: bagdikian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other witnesses were equally harsh. Freelance Reporter Ben H. Bagdikian agreed that children are learning that "the only difference in tactics and ethics between a cop and a crook is who has the badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...
...suggested Press Critic Ben Bagdikian, offer dying papers for sale at a fair market price to independent buyers? To which Jack Howard replied that he and his co-publishers tried to give away the dying New York World Journal Tribune last spring, but there were no takers. "Nobody would accept it as a gift," said Howard. Whether Congress believes the Failing Newspaper Act is the way to rescue insolvent papers remains to be seen. A decision is still innumerable witnesses away...