That in fact was Vidal's point concerning the Economist.
Jim F.
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:19:05 -0400 Marv Gandall
<marvgandall at videotron.ca> writes:
> 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>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> 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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