[4] This strain of Brin's reportage continued late into the newsman's career: he later wrote investigative pieces on American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and Holocaust denier Willis Carto.
In his 70s, Brin demanded a tour of the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, making clear that he was a Jewish journalist.
[5] After his service in World War II during which he wrote for Yank magazine,[5] Brin started writing public interest stories for the Los Angeles Times in 1947.
Though he quit his role at the LA Times at the start of this endeavor, he would continue writing there regularly, for instance covering the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem for them.
[5] The Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles settled with Brin for an undisclosed-but-large sum after an eight-year suit.
Fissures between independent and Federation-backed members of the American Jewish Press Association developed as a result of this suit, though the organization ultimately did not split apart.
Following the successful suit, the Los Angeles federation was required to issue a statement in support of the free, independent press in addition to their monetary settlement.
Brin asked of Israel's ambassador to the event, Abba Eban, "whether history has passed to such an extent that only 17 years after Warsaw Ghetto, Jews are ready to break bread with them".
[1] At time of death, his son David lived in San Diego, Daniel in West Hills, and Stan, a business writer, in Orange County.