----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: Re: An Israeli Pundit Scorecard
Not that the basic argument isn't true for the high-circulation newspapers, but the scorecard stacks the deck by including pundits from National Review, Frontpage, The New Republic, and other smaller circulation weeklies, while ignoring pundits from progressive magazines other than The Nation (and those got including only because the authors appear in other publications like Vanity Fair or the New York Press.) Commondreams.org has articles from a number of columnists who get decent syndication who criticize Israel. Throw in cartoonists like Tom Tomorrow and Ted Rail who get decent circulation and the punditocracy does shift a bit out of the down-the-line Israel support column.
There is sometimes a tendency on the left to marginalize progressives in the media in order to overmake the point about the marginalization of progressive voices. The reality is bad enough without overdoing it.
-- Nathan Newman
================ Well stop enabling the larger problem by calling any jerk on the list "pundits."
Ian