[lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 11 09:37:08 PST 2008


On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:13 PM, berber carpet bomb wrote:


> On Jan 11, 2008 7:22 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>> It's not clear who the audience for this book is. ... The liberal
>> netroots maybe? But they're less
>> ideological than Kuttner and they don't read books anyway.
>
> I don't know either, but the lack of reading among the netroots isn't
> a problem for them. that is what Amazon is for! That is what a blog is
> for! You can read the first chapter at Amazon and that is so totally
> good enough. Better yet, you can read a blogger you respect or who
> everyone basically respects (because they link to them) who's read the
> chapter and, that way, you can speak authoritatively about the book!

Oh right, I keep forgetting. I feel so out of touch.



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