From: Steve Drew (sd014a6399@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Tue 10 Dec 2002 - 00:12:32 GMT
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:34:24 -0500
> From: "A and B Vitale" <abvitale@FrontierNet.net>
> Subject: Re: The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing By Lee Harris
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: joedees@bellsouth.net
>
>> Edward Said, Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky are equally ubiquitous.
>
> really? to whom? chomsky's bar far the most "popular" and he was shut out of
> the NY Times for years and his books, until recently, were published in the
> many small (read: unavailable in major bookstores) presses. most americans
> probably couldn't tell you about fisk or said.
>
> neither of these men have television shows. neither of these is available
> for mass consumption...unless you consider academic books about the middle
> east to be mass consumption.
>
> you're comparing people like rush limbaugh and o'reilly to people whose work
> is made available mostly to academics.
>
> therefore, the ability for the three "ubiquitous lefties" to be contagious
> is limited. in fact, you might say the left is quarantined to live in
> offices on some college campuses.
>
> alfred
George Monbiot of the Guardian (UK paper) produces some very good left wing
reason arguments. The column is on Tuesdays. Not exactly mainstream
publishing, but he does reach a comparitively wide audience in the UK.
Regards
Steve
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