[lbo-talk] the end of contrarianism?

[Marv Gandall]

Well, I must (sob!) shamefully admit to also reading the leaders and the 
opinion pages of the WSJ - though in the same way intelligence agencies read 
(or used to read, at any rate) what the left was saying. I also get factual 
information from these publications and the Financial Times that I can't get 
in today's left-wing media which unfortunately lack news-gathering resources 
and are mainly expressions of opinion. To that end, the financial press is 
much more useful a news source than the mainstream media - the latter being 
mostly superficial vehicles which help engineer mass ideological consent, 
the former being elite publications aimed at CEO's and other readers whose 
investment decisions can be and are influenced by these newspapers' more 
detailed and more sophisticated coverage of political and economic matters.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bhaskar Sunkara" <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the end of contrarianism?


>I can understand.  I started murdering children in daycare clinics when 
>Gore
> Vidal praised it.
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM, farmelantj at juno.com 
> <farmelantj at juno.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> I started reading The Economist many years ago,
>> when Gore Vidal praised its virtues.  But,
>> he made it clear that it was the news pages
>> in the magazine that he admired, not the leaders.
>>
>>  Jim F.
>>
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