Press Critic George Seldes Dies

George Seldes, author, journalist and critic of the press who protested the suppression of news and the power of business interests in the 1930s and 1940s, died Sunday in Mount Ascutney Hospital and Health Center. He was 104.

Seldes brought a muckraker’s fervor to his critical commentaries on the press in books and in the newsletter In Fact, which he edited from 1940 to 1950.

Like I.F. Stone, who published his independent I.F. Stone’s Weekly from the 1950s until the early 1970s, Seldes delighted in uncovering stories that had been overlooked by others, exposing corruption and challenging the practices of leading newspapers.