<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>Sure Luce hired many leftwingers: during the 1930s there were so many communists and fellow-travellers working at TIME, they even had their own internal newsletter. But these writers were not allowed to write left-wing material. TIME during that period was a genteel verion of the Hearst press, offering subtle propaganda on behalf of Franco, Chiang Kai-Shek, and many other anti-Communist dictators.</P> <P>I think Chomsky is right, in general to say that there has been an improvement in the media since the real horror days of the early Cold War and not just on American foreign policy but also with regard to the Middle East. As Cockburn noted recently, in the 1960s and 1970s there was almost no one reporting on the Palestinian side in the U.S.; there is still a massive pro-Israel bias, but Palestinian voices do get heard....<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: "Carl Remick" <CARLREMICK@HOTMAIL.COM> <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: lbo-talk@lists.panix.com <DIV></DIV>>To: lbo-talk@lists.panix.com <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: NC gets personal <DIV></DIV>>Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 15:50:08 <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>>The Time of Luce was in <DIV></DIV>>>many ways worse than that of AOL Time Warner, no? <DIV></DIV>>> <DIV></DIV>>>Doug <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Then again, onetime Fortune writer Dwight Macdonald notes in his <DIV></DIV>>correspondence that Henry Luce preferred hiring leftists for his <DIV></DIV>>editorial <DIV></DIV>>staff because he felt that Republicans couldn't write. <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Carl <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>_________________________________________________________________ <DIV></DIV>>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <DIV></DIV>>http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></html>