“The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.”

— I. F. Stone

The Haunted Fifties (1963)

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American investigative journalist and author 1907–1989

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