"Our credo must be the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign givers and takers," Mr. Barrett once said, accepting an award at Columbia Journalism School. "So I say: Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level, care."
Wayne Barrett died today. He was 71.