[lbo-talk] ciao, newspapers

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 23 04:59:20 PST 2010


On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:55 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:


> The poets often get there first. This is from Tom Stoppard's "Night
> and Day" (1978):
>
> Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free
> press everything is correctable, and without it everything is
> concealable.
> Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't
> stand.

Right. The 20 mins I just spent reading the first section of the NYT were a total waste. Learned nothing about Haiti, the Republican/Tea Party split, opposition to Bernanke. I shoulda read Stoppard instead.

Doug



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