Great essay on what it takes to catch the attention of the media "Blood and Ink." Great essay on McNeil Lehr and how, just at the time that Americans decided there were NOT two sides to every story (Watergate), they came out with a format that insisted there were, and a pretty funny essay on gastroporn.
Rumor then has it he shacked up with a rich woman....and started writing more pixillated and self-indulgent stuff.
I think he still has his usual perch at The Nation, No?
Joanna
Chris Doss wrote:
>I really don't understand what people see in Cockburn.
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>--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>From: "James Heartfield"
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>><Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
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>>>Fifty years from now people will wonder what all
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>>the fuss was about ...
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>>[James, you and Alexander Cockburn really merit
>>membership in one of
>>London's storied men's clubs, where you could sit in
>>leather armchairs all
>>day harrumphing to one another over whiskey and soda
>>about extraordinary
>>popular delusions and the madness of crowds. IMO
>>Cockburn better deserves
>>the tag Joker than Ace these days:]
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>>April 28 / 29, 2007
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>>>From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits
>>Is Global Warming a Sin?
>>By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
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>>In a couple of hundred years, historians will be
>>comparing the frenzies over
>>our supposed human contribution to global warming to
>>the tumults at the
>>latter end of the tenth century as the Christian
>>millennium approached.
>>Then, as now, the doomsters identified human
>>sinfulness as the propulsive
>>factor in the planet's rapid downward slide. ...
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>><http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04282007.html>
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>>Carl
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