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[Steven McGraw]

At 02:34 PM 3/25/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>On 25/3/03 2:22 pm, "Steven McGraw" <stmcgraw at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>> The Murdochites are in full roar,
>> 
>> Isn't Murdoch mercenary rather than ideological?  I mean, he published
>> Moore's book _Stupid White Men._
>
>If Moore's Preface to the English edition is accurate, HarperCollins printed
>50,000 copies of SWM but then refused to ship them to bookshops in the wake
>of 11 September 2001, insisting that Moore rewrite half of the text, which
>he then refused to do. Only a mass lobby of HarperCollins by America's
>librarians (which generated publicity in Publisher's Weekly) got HC to
>change its corporate mind.

Wasn't the initial refusal to ship a (bad) financial decision?


>
>Is mercenary/ideological an exhaustive binary?
>

Of course it isn't, but the two often come into conflict.  I'm asking
whether we actually need ideology to explain Murdoch's business decisions.
Trying not to multiply entities and all that.


>HarperCollins published No Logo, too.
>
>Chris
>
>

Ah.