NYP, It's Writers (Future and Present)

Jeffrey St. Clair sitka at home.com
Sat Nov 13 12:10:19 PST 1999


t byfield wrote:


> > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:02:37 -0500
> > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> > >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.

You don't read irony very well, do you? --jsc



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