[lit-ideas] Re: A Question REALLY Answered
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:24:18 -0500
At 04:02 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
Paul Stone wrote:
I think Safire is MUCH smarter than Dowd -- well he used to be before he
started getting old -- but he has just as many silly opinions. I like
about half of what he writes. At least he has variety. But... at the end
of the day, they are both, blech, journalists.
RP: Is WS still writing in Canada? He stopped doing commentary for the
Times a couple of years ago, although he still does his column on language
for their Sunday magazine.
I haven't really seen ANYONE 'in' print for several years so I can't answer
that question. I look at most "papers" on the 'net nowadays after the local
newspaper squeezed every last bit of useful information (movie times, good
editorials, local news, entertainment critical write-ups etc.) out of their
publication in favour of sensationalist 'human interest' drama and the
latest "scare" to society.
RP: Are they both blech journalists? (I'm not looking for an essentialist
thread on 'what is a journalist.') Seymour Hersh is a journalist. Safire
was a political hack masquerading as an expert on current affairs.
Even the 'good' journalists are still, well, journalists. -- i went to a
university which was very closely allied with a journalism school and
because of this experience, coupled with the daily evidence in the media,
I'm prejudiced against them. There are as many as I can count on one hand
that I would actually take with more than a single grain of salt. I'm not
familiar with Seymour Hersh. I'm just looking for the story, not A
politically motivated, emotionally charged side of it. That's hard to find
these days. I'm always open to suggestions.
Oh, this reminds me why I FINALLY gave up on Andy... it was during the
hurricane [katrina] when 'he' held up Heraldo as the last bastion of hope
for honest journalists.
Paul
p.s. although I used them interchangeable, "blech" and "well" are NOT
synonymous. My use of the second was an attempt to be more balanced, but I
see I remain unbalanced.
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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