[lbo-talk] one blowhard memorializes another

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Apr 24 10:13:11 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 24 April 2007 12:27, Doug Henwood quoted
> <http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=518467>
>
> said Pulitzer Prize-
> winning journalist J. Anthony Lewis ’48, a former Crimson managing
> editor. "[Halberstam] was a sweet man—loyal, kind, thoughtful. I just didn’t
> know anybody who is a better representation of journalism.”

That last comment is true enough, though in a sense that the Snoozemaster General probably did not intend.

I happened to hear Halberstam being eulogized on NPR this morning. They had fished Ted Koppel out of his bottle of formaldehyde, rather like Bentham's mummy at the University of London, and hooked up a hot-air pump to him. He droned on for what seemed like an eternity in a creepy, hollow, sepulchral voice, to very little effect, except that he seemed to be making the rather startling claim that there was no anti-war movement until Halberstam's reporting caused it to spring into existence. En archei en ho logos!



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