The man Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee called a "miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante" died on November 16, aged 82.* The man Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee called a "miserable, carping carp·ing adj. Naggingly critical or complaining. carp  ing·ly adv.Noun 1. , retromingent vigilante vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers and shooters, and " died on November 16, aged 82. Reed Irvine Reed Irvine (September 29, 1922-November 16, 2004) was an economist turned media watchdog with known conservative sympathies. He founded the conservative Accuracy in Media, and remained its head for 35 years. , founder of Accuracy in Media, thought this graceless comment such a compliment to his work exposing the Post's liberal prejudices that he kept the letter framed on his office wall. When Irvine created AIM "with a check for $200" in 1969, the television networks and leading newspapers believed themselves to be above criticism from the ordinary public, let alone from an obscure Federal Reserve economist like Mr. Irvine. In later years, he adopted narrower and more peculiar complaints about the media, such as that they were incurious in·cu·ri·ous adj. Lacking intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; uninterested. in·cu about the death of Vincent Foster; but by that time he had already gone far toward establishing the bias of the establishment media. If reasonable observers may nowadays justly assume, rather than debate, that bias, it is in no small part because of Reed Irvine's work. R.I.P. |
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