Noam in the News

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 6 14:41:51 PDT 2002


At 4:55 PM -0400 5/6/02, Greg Ruggiero [of Seven Stories Press] wrote:


>NEW YORK TIMES FEATURE
>On Saturday, the New York Times ran a feature about Chomsky's 9-11,
>including quotes from Greg and Dan, Chomsky, book stores, as well as
>several adversaries of the book's point of view. Full text of the article
>can be read at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/arts/04TANK.html.
>
>WASHINGTON POST FEATURE
>Citing that modern linguists "regard Chomsky as their Einstein, their Freud,
>their Picasso, " Sunday's Washington Post also honed in on the phenomena of
>9-11 and Chomsky's political dissidence. "He's ignored by the mafia that
>controls America's op-ed pages, and that's unfortunate," says Steve
>Wasserman of the LA Times Book Review, quoted in the article. Unlike
>the article in the New York Times on Saturday, Sunday's Post piece more
>deeply examines Chomsky's career both as a linguist and as an
>author/ activist. The complete article, well worth the read, can be
>read at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27441-2002May3.html



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