Nat Hentoff Quotes
What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New Republic ], I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing [fire a journalist].
Hentoff, Nat. Interview by Brian Lamb. Booknotes, C-SPAN, 7 Sept. 1997.
She had started this newspapers after the premises of her last paper had been ransacked by rowdies insulted by the fact that she wrote of things that were considered private. In one instance a prominent slave owner who had business in town brought a slave servant who gave birth to a child in St. Cloud. The owner sent the mother and child to his Southern home and Swisshelm wrote an editorial and claimed he was a felon who kidnapped a child in Minnesota and transported her into slavery in the South.
Nathan Irving Hentoff was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Hentoff was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1958 to 2009. Following his departure from The Village Voice, Hentoff became a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and continued writing his music column for The Wall Street Journal, which published his works until his death. He often wrote on First Amendment issues, vigorously defending the freedom of the press.
