Mother Jones

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Tue Aug 25 15:03:47 PDT 1998


[Seth Ackerman] Doug Henwood wrote


> What magazines are interesting by this criterion?
>
> And I think it matters who's saying these things. If you're no fan of
> Corn
> or Mojo, why not read their positions as apologias for conformist crap
> rather than calls for against-the-grain liveliness?
>
>
The Baffler is interesting by that criterion. (Not to mention LBO). As for Corn and Mojo, I think you're right. But the "non-conformist" element of the left press (say, the Progressive) is a snooze, and sometimes worse.

Seth Ackerman



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