{"id":227,"date":"2006-09-27T07:48:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T07:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2006\/09\/27\/old-york-newspaper-wont-die-or\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T07:48:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T07:48:28","slug":"old-york-newspaper-wont-die-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/old-york-newspaper-wont-die-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Old York newspaper won’t die or fade away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not surprisingly, The Gazette and Daily in York shows up, albeit briefly, in Myra MacPherson\u2019s \u201cAll Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone.” http:\/\/www.simonsays.com\/content\/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=520115&agid=2<\/a>
\nStone, the famed independent journalist, and J.W. Gitt, the noted Gazette and Daily owner, had much in common.
\nThey fought McCarthyism, sought to thaw the Cold War and questioned the Vietnam War from beginning to end. Gitt published Stone\u2019s work on the op-ed page, or second editorial page, as it was called. Further, the two men had a common denominator in Louis Stone, Izzy\u2019s brother and J.W.\u2019s managing editor… .<\/p>\n


\nMacPherson wrote that The Gazette and Daily was one of a dozen newspapers that Izzy Stone read each day.
\nThe York newspaper, in turn, published Stone\u2019s work, expanding the reach of his writing. Gitt’s Gazette developed a wide following for running left-of-center commentary on its op-ed page.
\nBy the way, J.W. Gitt, the small-town newspaper owner from 1915-1970 who gained a worldwide following, may have his story told soon. Efforts are under way to publish his biographer, Mary Allienne Hamilton\u2019s, work on Gitt.
\nStone \u2014 and Gitt \u2014 drew intense criticism throughout their careers. And even today. Consider what historian Paul Johnson says of Lillian Hellman, considered by some to be in the same camp.
\n\u201cLike (Victor) Gollancz, she was part of that great intellectual conspiracy in the West to conceal the horrors of Stalinism,” he wrote in his book \u201cIntellectuals.”
\nNot sure about the conspiracy allegation, but one weakness of Cold War liberals was that they cried for peace when there was no peace in Siberian gulags.
\nBut back to Stone, for the moment. In setting up a Christopher Hitchens article on MacPherson\u2019s biography, vanityfair.com http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/features\/general\/articles\/060911fege01<\/a> states with the same verve that characterized Stone\u2019s work:
\n\u201cReading a new biography of the fiercely independent and incorruptible I. F. \u201cIzzy” Stone, the author recalls how, with a one-man kitchen-table weekly, the late great reporter blazed the way for a generation of bloggers, became a legend Washington journalists still worship, and set a standard few can meet… .”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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