Meanwhile Longtime journalist and radio commentator John Hess has also died at the age of 87. For 24 years he worked at the New York Times, he later became a regular on Pacifica station WBAI providing * daily commentaries* to end the WBAI Evening News. He continued writing and recording commentaries up until his death. Last year Seven Stories published his autobiography titled * “My Times: a Memoir of Dissent.”* In it he criticized his former employer, the New York Time. He wrote “muckraking…tended to make the Times brass nervous…Truly investigating, questioning, skeptical reporting was practically unTimesian.” Last year Hess started his web blog titled * “John L Hess Dissents.”* On the website Counterpunch * Alexander Cockburn wrote* “John Hess grew old the way journalists are meant to go old, but almost never do. He never stopped stamping on the toes of the powers-that-be, never lost his edge, never got out of harness.”