Ventura

[James Farmelant]

The story of Robert Scheer sounds like a less extreme form of
Sidney Blumenthal's story.  Blumenthal as a local journalist for the
alternative press in Boston back in the 1970s (writing for The Boston
Phoenix and The Real Paper) used to write Marxist-oriented screeds
on subjects like imperialism.  He eventually graduated to writing for
publications like The New Republic where he developed a well-earned
reputation as a Clinton suck-up.  For his efforts he was eventually
rewarded with a job in the Clinton White House along with the opportunity
to sue Matt Drudge for slander.

		Jim Farmelant

On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:28:37 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes:
>>From Micah Sifry's Salon article:
>>     Robert Scheer,
>>     a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a limousine liberal if 
>there
>>     ever was one, said on his radio show on KCRW that "The people of
>>     Minnesota should be spanked for letting this happen."
>
>A very interesting article. By the way, Salon would be a good model 
>for the
>sort of web-based radical/Marxist mag I have been kicking around in my 
>mind.
>
>Scheer, as it turns out, was the editor of Ramparts in the 1960s, a 
>very
>fine radical, investigative journalism monthly. Scheer was editor when 
>the
>mag broke the story about the CIA funding all sorts of intellectual
>journals in the 1950s. Scheer was also quite a good journalist during 
>the
>Reagan years and wrote a fine book exposing the nuclear war 
>first-strike
>strategizing of the Reagan Defense Dept. He was what you might call a
>typical Nation Magazine asset during those years. Nowadays, with 
>Clinton in
>the White House, he has become what Mark Hertsgaard called a 
>stenographer
>to power. A different regime, but the same sort of spin-doctoring.
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>

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