Nicknames for Right-Wing Media (was: Re: Pre-historic human societies)

[Brad DeLong]

>From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
>
>Me:
>
>>I really have a problem with them - I'd love to talk with
>>a real reporter from that paper, and ask them what it's like
>>to work there.
>>
>>
>>Barry
>
>Brad:
>
>>Think of Checkpoint Charlie during the High Cold War...
>
>
>Me:  Brad, what does that mean?  If you're trying to say
>that the editorial staff imagines themselves as part of
>a beleaguered, helpless resistance to the overwhelming forces
>of left/liberalism that 99% dominates what once was a proud,
>rich, powerful country, I'd believe you.
>
>
>Barry

They do. And the news pages think that the editorial page staff is 
made up of paranoid lunatics...