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...Washington Post, wrote Ben Bagdikian in a 1967 Columbia Journalism Review article, was then "within a lunge of greatness." Bagdikian, an unrelenting liberal and one of the country's most thoughtful press critics, believed that the Post, among other faults, too often let its own liberal view color its news coverage...
...been doing in California and came back east in 1970, first as the paper's assistant managing editor for national affairs and then, for the past year, as its "ombudsman." The latter assignment gave him a mandate to criticize-in print-the Post's performance. Last week Bagdikian, 52, abruptly resigned. Post management, he concluded, could not take the medicine it had asked him to administer...
...editors insist that they approve of the concept of journalism reviews. Although Denver Post Managing Editor John Rogers feels that The Unsatisfied Man contains "too much invective," he adds that "if we in journalism can't take criticism, we might as well close shop." Assistant Managing Editor Ben Bagdikian of the Washington Post, whose critique of the paper in the Columbia Journalism Review eventually led the Post to hire him, feels the review concept has "made it possible for professionals to talk about the press in a critical way without pussyfooting. These reviews have taken a look at sacred...
...statement was a direct plea to the press to suppress the information at hand. Yet the Washington Post, quickly followed by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, decided to publish accounts of the theft as well as the general contents of some of the documents. Said Ben Bagdikian, the Post's national editor, after a telephone call from Mitchell: "We thought it was a significant matter of public controversy, and once we confirmed that the documents were authentic, we decided to go ahead. It was an insight into something the public needs to know." Accordingly, a Post...
...sure we can afford to be hiring political activists any more," Ben Bagdikian, the Post's national editor reportedly told one intern applicant...