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13801 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000
On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > I feel a little bad in making a "throwing-cold-water-on -it " > comment, but a lot of the dreaming about a left newspaper seems to > be to design it just like the major U.S. newspapers whose > circulation is plunging, no ? > This is clearly pipe dreaming, but one of the reasons that newspapers are losing circ is that they're dull.
Document Size: 5125
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 1 08:01:33 PST 2006
13802 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000
On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The whole discussion is pure pie in the sky. If "the left" had the > power/resources to produce the kind of paper people are talking > about it > wouldn't have to because the revolution would already have occurred. I see a theme for your first column. And your fourth, seventh, ninth, and twelfth! Doug
Document Size: 5103
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 1 06:54:59 PST 2006
13803 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000
On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:30 AM, ravi wrote: > What is the target audience? I agree that if you want large > circulation > and attract a general audience you would need to at the least provide > news coverage. Or are you rallying the base? Doug mentioned a New York > tabloid... news with polemics? The politics of the NY Post suck, and are at odds with a lot of New Yorkers' politics, but people read it anyway because it's so damned entertaining. We could do that too, if we could find ...
Document Size: 5313
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 1 06:07:38 PST 2006
13804 [lbo-talk] Trump the size queen vulgarian -- rank: 1000
New York Post [Page Six] - November 1, 2006 Size Matters DONALD Trump's battle with Palm Beach over his oversize flagpole at Mar-a-Lago got nastier this week, as the town threatened to fine him $250 a day for violating its zoning laws and both sides hurled insults at each other. Trump, whose 80-foot flagpole exceeds the 42- foot maximum, fumed that anybody who objects "should not, in my opinion, hold a public office of any kind - at least not in this country. And I thought I was doing ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 1 04:47:19 PST 2006
13805 [lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000
On Nov 1, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Carrol, think of this daily as a more presentable form of lbo-talk. > In the lists, you're promiscuously "united" with us and yet still > being yourself. And tfast is giving you a weekly column already, > where you could set out to demonstrate why the existence of the paper > is impossible. Yeah, Carrol could be the paper's Andy Rooney!
Document Size: 5155
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 1 04:45:23 PST 2006
13806 [lbo-talk] Re: Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers -- rank: 1000
On Nov 1, 2006, at 3:16 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > There was talk a few years ago of a US edition of the Guardian > (<http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_8938/>). > What happened to that idea? Money, as I recall. And they were talking about hiring tepid sorts like Sidney Blumenthal. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 1 04:34:01 PST 2006
13807 [lbo-talk] Re: Aundhati Roy on the brewing instability in India -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In the particular category you describe (that > of black males who do well), the ones who do well are not doing well > BECAUSE other black males are doing poorly! How's that? Is there some racial zero-sum balancing mechanism? Doug
Document Size: 5110
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 19:33:43 PDT 2006
13808 [lbo-talk] Adam Hanieh, "Canadian Union Takes Important Step against Israeli Apartheid" -- rank: 1000
Contributors to this thread, please remember the 3-a-day limit. Doug
Document Size: 5145
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 17:17:55 PDT 2006
13809 [lbo-talk] Land reform plan angers Bolivian elite -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 6:28 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > Leftist President Evo Morales has pledged an "agrarian revolution" to > redistribute idle farmlands to the impoverished country's landless > peasants -- a > move that has highlighted divisions between the poor majority and > the rich elite. So Comrade Novus - is this substantially identical to a fascist agenda? Sounds pretty great to me. Doug
Document Size: 5154
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 15:56:31 PDT 2006
13810 [lbo-talk] Adam Hanieh, "Canadian Union Takes Important Step against Israeli Apartheid" -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > There is literally no substantial > difference between the national liberation rhetoric of > the statist Left and the fascist Right. Oh, please. Sure there is. You can say there are affinities, and I have, but "no substantial difference"? Come down from 40,000 feet and give some examples to prove this rather overstated assertion. Doug
Document Size: 5533
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 15:30:10 PDT 2006
13811 [lbo-talk] Re: Aundhati Roy on the brewing instability in India -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 5:49 PM, ravi wrote: > At around 31/5/06 5:25 pm, mike larkin wrote: >> >> Let me say that I find [...] posts to be a refreshing corrective >> to the gloom and doom stuff about South Asia that you read in the >> left press. >> > > Yes indeed! The reality based world is such a bummer ;-). As President > Bush has said, someone just has to report the good stuff that is > happening in Iraq and we will win the war overnight. ...
Document Size: 5698
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 14:59:14 PDT 2006
13812 [lbo-talk] Matriarchy/Patriarchy -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Louis Kontos wrote: > Also, why the name calling? Should Cox respond in kind? Would you > cry foul if he did? Cox repeatedly denounces things as "incoherent," "childish," and a host of other unpleasant things, and on several occasions has accused listmembers of being cops. So the question of his responding in kind is, as the econometricians say, misspecified. Doug
Document Size: 4921
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 12:43:55 PDT 2006
13813 [lbo-talk] Interfax: Venezuela intends to import the bulk of weapons from Russia -ambassador -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 1:12 PM, John Adams wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> Hey, I've talked to Chavez enthusiasts who think Venezuela is the >> driving force behind high oil prices - in a positive way. As if OPEC >> weren't just one factor among many. > > Somehow, I doubt tonight's piece will have a positive spin. Me either. But neither version would be accurate. Doug
Document Size: 5608
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 10:20:07 PDT 2006
13814 [lbo-talk] Fwd: 100 Best Living Songwriters -- from Paste magazine -- rank: 1000
[speaking of rankings and lists...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 100 Best Living Songwriters -- from Bob Dylan to Outkast: Paste magazine ranks the greats -- Decatur, GA (May 30, 2006) Bob Dylan tops Paste magazine s list of the 100 Best Living Songwriters, released today and published in the June/July 2006 issue. Fifty journalists and musicians (including Solomon Burke, Cameron Crowe, Patterson Hood, and many others) were enlisted to compile the list and were encouraged to vote for the son ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 09:49:51 PDT 2006
13815 [lbo-talk] Interfax: Venezuela intends to import the bulk of weapons from Russia -ambassador -- rank: 1000
On May 31, 2006, at 12:12 PM, John Adams wrote: > Last night, I saw a CBS Evening News promo for "The Chavez > Connection", which is apparently going to explain why Hugo Chavez > is responsible for high gasoline prices. Hey, I've talked to Chavez enthusiasts who think Venezuela is the driving force behind high oil prices - in a positive way. As if OPEC weren't just one factor among many. Doug
Document Size: 5409
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 31 09:17:40 PDT 2006
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