>I've told this story bunches on this list(in different contexts, usually my
>limited experience with The Left) and assumed that the no comment just meant
>no one believed me. Anyway, back when CounterPunch went to that logo about
>Babylon I was rather drunk one night as I was getting my sub renewal
>together(before I was on the internet or had managed to express myself some,
>while sober) and I wrote a note on the renewal form saying something like
>the Babylon thing just making the mag less credible out here in The Rube
>Gallery(this is pre-RG and I don't remember how I put it but you know how I
>feel about needlessly alienating regular people and handing free hammers to
>the likes of Limbaugh and stuff) and I said that I liked CounterPunch cause
>it told the facts and named the names instead of a bunch of ideology. Soon
>after that CounterPunch started using just such a logo(or whatever you call
>it). As I recall I didn't do anything till the next renewal when I
>wrote(probably drunk) that I thought they should at least give me a free
>sub. Never heard back. Never renewed.
I think that's called a tagline, not a logo. But I'm not surprised. Alex C's attitude towards intellectual property is rather cavalier - or pre-bourgeois, if you prefer.
Doug