Alexander Cockburn, radical journalist who had written columns and long-standing and bitter conservative Wall Street Journal and the left output of the nation, died Friday in Germany. He was 71 years.
The writer was influential in fighting cancer, according to its editor, Katrina Vanden Heuvel.
Unlike other prominent writer, Christopher Hitchens, with whom he had often been compared, Cockburn does not share the history of the disease. "It was a rare move in a calm race characterized by a thirst for public debate.
For 28 years, Cockburn has written a column once the Devil in the nation. Her last column appears publication July 30.
"Alexander was delighted to be a disturbing element, and his provocative, controversial style, elegant, usually involved, and their reporting and analysis in the sub-windows open unreported news," Vanden Heuvel, director and editor of the Nation, said in an email to The Times.
"I often felt I was not doing my job well, if we have a dozen cancellations of subscriptions as a result of some columns Cockburn."
Cockburn was born June 6, 1941, in Scotland, the son of writer Claud Cockburn.
It grew up in Ireland and graduated from Oxford University in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language.
He began his journalism career in England before moving to the United States in 1973.
Moved to New York where he began writing a column for the Village Voice review of revolutionary media.
"His legacy was his commitment to truth, his disgust with the pretense of objectivity, his belief that every piece of writing has had an ideological inclination, and had to admit that," Amy Wilentz , a contributing editor nation, the Times said in an email.
Cockburn, who had been critical ofIsrael'spolicies was fired from the Village Voice in 1984, after it emerged that he had accepted $ 10,000 from a group described as pro-Arab. Cockburn said the money was for a book deal.
Like Hitchens, Cockburn began his career as a public intellectual as a radical leftist, and then to drift. Both found that the search for independent thought has given rise to opinions that are contrary to those held by their allies.
Where Cockburn, one of the main problems was left burning his denial of global warming, which brought him a measure of public attention in 2007.
In recent years, Cockburn had withdrawn from its privileged position at the public forum. "He had the intellectual firepower to do whatever I wanted," said writer Marc Cooper, a former colleague who had a fight with Cockburn.
"He became lost in a very influential writer in favor of becoming a controversial release of fang."
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