Frankly, Cockburn's self-congratulatory postures as a hairy-chested journalist were bewildering in his reply to you. You'd think he was Hemingway joining in the liberation of Paris, or something. Maybe I've been missing his best stuff, but lately Cockburn's reporting from the field seems to have focused mainly on the perils of cannabis cultivation. That's surely a risky business with all those thuggish paramilitary antidrug forces around, but as a reportorial beat it's scarcely on a par with confronting death squads in U.S. client states around the world.
Carl
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