[lbo-talk] Re:cockburn's "false" take on india

[Jim Devine]

On 8/9/05, frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>give cockburn a break, and maybe check your own bias: should he have
only spoken to the new yuppie class? and totally disregarded any other
reality in india, like, say, the dreadful situation of those who
suffered in the recent floods, partly because they are not part of the
wonderful progress enjoyed by  those surfing on the information tech wave?<

I think Cockburn's main role is to counterbalance the official US
press, led by people like Thomas Friedman.
-- 
Jim Devine
"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged
lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
-- Nicholas Chamfort