> >Given Katha Pollitt's damning stigmatization of the NYP as a hothouse for
> >rightwing blowhards, perhaps the listowner and mighty editor of LBO
> >should immediatley renounce his plans [based on my preliminary research]
> >to write a rotating column for Mugger's infernal rag?
i like the logic here: it's an 'infernal rag' therefore one shouldn't write for it. after all, it's much more useful as a punching bag than as a vehicle for something better. this kind of a priori high-groundism is, well, polite words fail me in a very radical way.
> Not a column. Occasional contributions to their soon-to-be-unveiled
> op-ed page. I enjoy reading NYP a lot, right-wing blowhards and all;
> I don't agree with Katha on that, but they've never called me a
> bubbly faghag (or kvelling Dutch boy) either. It's about 500 times
> more interesting than the Village Voice is these days; I'd rather be
> pissed off by something I read than bored, and the Voice is
> profoundly boring.
i actually like this logic here, not like above. it doesn't hew to a joyless vision of 'commitment' and 'solidarity' as a pretext for perpetuating the very structures one purports to oppose. as though a newspaper was much more than the sum of what's published in it. or as though a writer was merely the sum of the publications where his/her writings appear.
cheers, t