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Ben Bagdikian

b: Marash, Turkey, Jun 30, 1920

American. Author. Newspaper editor whose writings on poverty include The Poor In America, 1964.

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He has been called the Wizard of Ooze and a man possessed of tonsils marinated in honey.

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.