Rolling Stone article

Romenesko linked to an E&P report: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002651747

 

It was good to see that Salon article.

 

This is not a liberal-conservative issue. If a town of 300 is casting 5,000 votes for Bush, that's everyone's issue.

 

Yer damn right. It's an issue for FREEDOM !

 

The Kennedy article had its problems, and I still recall that RFK got onto the vaccine-autism story just as that one crashed and burned. That said, Greg Palast's done better work than either Kennedy or Manjoo on the story. And the most compelling thing to me is that all the "mistakes," "glitches" and "stuff" that happened benefitted one side.

 

Yeah, that's what I was thinking Fenian. The article made me think a little bit, but at the end, I was still thinking that RS has destroyed any sort of political credibility it ever had with its constant hate attacks against the Bush admin. I know they don't purport to be fair and balanced, but, ya know ...

 

That's the same sort of conspiracy theory junk conservatives used to deal in, like "Clinton had people killed!" There's no conspiracy. Kerry ran a shitty campaign and he wasn't a great candidate. Bush beat him fair and square.

 

Instead of starting a new thread ...

So I'm trying to expand my reading habits. Today over coffee at Borders I pick up a mag I've never read: Harper's.

I really enjoyed what I read. Ben Metcalf wrote a terrific Notebook piece on what it means in this day and age in America to have the right to write something on what it would be like to kill George W. Bush with your bare hands.

There's also an interested tidbit about Tom & Jerry the cartoon and how and why the cartoon came to be back in the day. It's called "Tom & Jewry."

And the other piece I straggled through was (forget the author's name) a first-person piece "Letters from Kiev," about mail-order brides. The writing is simple with just enough complexity, without that complexity going over one's head.

Anyone else read this mag regularly?