William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85
DECEMBER 13, 2018
JIM NAURECKAS
You know youve lived wellwell enough to rattle the establishmentwhen the New York Times smears you in the obituary it runs about you (FAIR.org, 6/20/13).
That distinction was achieved by William Blum, historian and critic of US foreign policy. Once a State Department computer programmer who aspired to take part in the great anti-Communist crusade, he quit government in 1967 out of disgust with the Vietnam War and became a founding editor of the Washington Free Press, one of the first alternative papers of the New Left. In books like
The CIA: A Forgotten History (re-released as
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II) and
Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower, Blum documented the violent and anti-democratic record of the US empire; he was a reference that FAIR frequently turned to when noting what was missing from the corporate medias version of history.
How did the
New York Times (12/11/18) frame this remarkable life? With this remarkable headline:
William Blum, US Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden, Dies at 85
More:
https://fair.org/home/william-blum-us-policy-critic-derided-by-nyt-dies-at-85/