[lbo-talk] ciao, newspapers

[C. G. Estabrook]

Sure. I read it too.  Been a subscriber since college.  As a kid, I used to sit
on the steps of my family's house in DC and wait for the Evening Star to be
delivered, so I could read about the desperate defense of free men against the
ravening hordes of world-wide communism, and resolve to join the Marines as soon
as I was old enough...

It's like the old joke, the punch-line to which is, "It's the only game in
town."  --CGE

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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