Richard Pollak, 91, dies; edited magazine that criticized the media

He was a founder of More, which skewered the foibles of the press in the 1970s, and later wrote a critical biography of the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim

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Richard Pollak, the founding editor of More magazine, an irreverent monthly journalism review that during the 1970s critiqued the media’s coverage of contentious subjects like the Vietnam War, President Richard M. Nixon and the oil industry, died on Dec. 27 in Stockholm. He was 91.

Mr. Pollak’s wife, Diane Walsh, confirmed his death, in hospice care. They had moved to Sweden from Portland, Maine, in May, to live near his daughter and grandchildren.

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