alumni wisdom

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Mon Feb 7 14:30:43 PST 2000


Doug Henwood wrote:


> New York Times reporter James Brooke '77 writes to inform his
> classmates that he's just been appointed as the newspaper of record's
> Canada correspondent. But because of onerous Canadian tax laws, he
> will be covering the Great White North from Denver; the Times closed
> its Ottawa bureau. Since most foreign reporting in the Times consists
> of recycling local press reports and U.S. embassy propaganda, who
> needs to be there and talk to and live among actual Canadians?
>

Brooke emitted a truly noxious article about Canada's health-care system two Sundays ago. He will be feeling FAIR's wrath soon...

Seth



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