Article: Frame-up abroad and at home: the A.P. and Nolan. (Associated Press and Boston Globe editorial page editor Martin Nolan) (Beat the Devil) (column)

I was glad to see I.F. Stone's death noted as a moment of consequence, but some of the honorifics made my stomach turn. Mainstream institutions that wouldn't have touched him for his most heterodox and important work during the wars in Korea and Vietnam came loping forward to appropriate him as someone wrongheaded at times but still the conscience of the trade, as though the trade had a conscience and as though they themselves were somehow better because of Stone. In The Boston Globe the editorial-page editor, Martin Nolan, was quoted as hailing Stone's work as "the most important venture in desk-top publishing since Tom Paine:" Only a few days earlier Nolan had been ...

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