[lbo-talk] New York Times: A Guilty Pleasure

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Jan 10 12:00:32 PST 2006



> Chuck wrote:
>
> >Constantly. I'm exposed to it as I do things around the house, so I
> >can claim that I'm up-to-date on what's on Fox News.
> >
> >I believe last night they were obsessed with that traitor Harry
> Belafonte.
>
> Yup. As Liza pointed out during O'R's rant about Belafonte
> (accompanied by that scumbag Juan Williams - how does he live with
> himself, playing Uncle Tom for the likes of O'Reilly?), you'd miss
> all this important stuff if you got your news only from the NYT.
>
> Doug

I confess that I'm devoted to the New York Times. I subscribe to it and have it home-delivered, actually. The New York Times -- the bastion of middlebrow culture (unlike cooler lowbrow fare peddled by Fox, the New York Post, and the like) -- is _the_ guilty pleasure for leftists, most of whom, I suspect, prefer it to all other American newspapers, though they will _never_ admit to that: "Every [US socialist] organization, no matter what size, had its 'mass organ' -- usually a tabloid paper, though a mimeographed or photocopied newsletter would do in a pinch. And usually it also had a theoretical journal, where party cadres and 'advanced workers' were instructed in revolutionary concepts (applied to information gleaned, very often, from The New York Times)" ("Sect Appeal," 6 February 1997, <http:// www.salon.com/feb97/media/media970206.html>).

Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>



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