The Nation: page per author (was (vaguely): identity politics)

Les Schaffer godzilla at netmeg.net
Mon May 25 12:39:26 PDT 1998


>> Les Schaffer wrote: Say, is it REALLY TRUE that Cockburn had

>> his page allotment halved for dubious reasons?.

>> The judgment of whether the reasons were dubious is yours,

i was refering to to a previously posted implication that he was halved so that alterman could have a page.

>> but

>> the editors said they couldn't justify Cockburn having 2 pages

>> when all the other columnists had one. His former second page

>> was given over to Patricia Williams.

final judgement: dubious.

a single page just gives a good writer time to get going. hitchens, pollitt, cockburn would all look great in two. seems like the trend in all weekly mags now is to go with shorter pieces.. yuck....

((( doug, you're usually in the letters section, right? )))

les



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