[Marxism] A dishonest John L. Hess obituary

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear NY Times ombudsman,

I can see John Hess sitting on a cloud glowering at your sanitized version
of his life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/obituaries/22hess.html

As you folks know only too well, John was a high-profile critic of American
foreign policy and social injustice at home. Indeed, his recently published
memoir has just a chapter each on food and the art world, but the rest of
it is about American bullying abroad and plutocracy at home and the role of
the NY Times in maintaining the status quo through its connections with the
Dean Rusks and Robert Moses of the world.

So, ironically, your dishonest obituary helps us to remember what he spent
his life fighting against.


Louis Proyect
Marxism list: www.marxmail.org


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