The lameness of magazines like Z and the Progressive seems to transcend - and overwhelm - the talent of particular writers. Take the Progressive, for instance. With columnists like Barbara Ehrenreich and Adolph Reed, you'd expect to look forward to the thing every month. But you don't. At least, I don't.
Going back to an earlier thread -- the Nation's editing. There IS plenty of bad editing that goes on there, but the only two Nation editors I've worked with consistently have been very, very good at their jobs. I've been lucky. Just wanted to point out for the record that it's not a monolith.
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:07:24 -0400
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd)
>
> Marta Russell wrote:
>
>> Naomi Klein writes for Znet.
>> Does that put her in the trash can too as some on this list have suggested?
>
> Uh, Marta, just because one thinks Z magazine sucks - a position I
> concur with, since it's ugly, mind-numbing, and dull, the printed
> equivalent of donning a hair shirt - doesn't mean that people who
> write for ZNet (which isn't the same as the magazine) are bad.
> Naomi's not, and you're not. Quite the contrary - Naomi's a very good
> writer, and I think enough of your work to have asked you to write a
> piece for LBO.
>
> Doug