--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, Michael was impossible when he edited the
> Flint
> > and the Michigan Review in the 1980s, a real
> tyrant. I
> > think that as much as the Nicaragua flap was why
> he
> > was fired from Mother Jones. jks
>
> Not to nitpick, Justin, but it was the
> Flint/Michigan Voice that Moore ran.
> I used to have a stack of back issues. They were
> pretty good, and I can see
> why the old Mo Jones took a chance on him. I knew
> someone who worked for
> Moore there, and he said the same thing, that Moore
> was a tyrant. He
> alienated much of the staff, and when a legitimate
> editorial issue came
> up -- whether or not to run Paul Berman's Nicaragua
> piece -- Moore didn't
> have the support he could have had. He then went to
> Cockburn who inflated
> the issue in Beat The Devil as one of Rich Man (Adam
> Hochschild) vs. Working
> Stiff (Moore), omitting mention of Moore's office
> conduct. And then Moore
> went further in "Roger & Me," suggesting that he was
> fired because he
> wouldn't run a story on herbal tea. Again,
> embellishment on his part. And
> for what -- laughs? Satire? Political commentary?
> Sometimes Moore pulls it
> off beautifully. Other times it's Armour Ham fisted.
>
> DP
>
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