I don't at all agree that the WSJ has honest reporting. Whenever , I read it it has the same slick demogogy that the rest of the monopoly media does. Here's an article in 9/13/99 "If Detroit Rebounds, Robert Slattery Can Claim Some Credit" . The story doesn't seem very honest to me. Sounds like making a hero out of real estate ripoff artist. It has the same big lie that "Detroit is rebounding now that Coleman Young is out and Dennis Archer is in ". That's the fundamental demogogy of this article. There has been all kinds of real estate development in Detroit over the years of Coleman Young's years. The Eastside had lots of new housing. That isn't in the article. Take my word for it, this WSJ article on Detroit is disceptive and misleading. What the WSJ may report accurately is the business news. because the business class needs to know the truth. I mean they can't misreport that Motorola acquired General Instrument. But the politcal and cultural stuff is as much bourgeois propaganda as the NYT: "True but false". What I meant by gems are not rare is the "gems" of the type that you sarcastically referred to in the article by Jarvis Tyner. You didin't really mean that was a gem did you ? Well , the WSJ is full of such false gems. Plus, a lot of discussion of actual "precious stuff". Anyway, the WSJ certainly seems loaded with news of monopolization and big financial institutions, how is _Imperialism_ off on that ? How are Hedge Funds not financial capital as Lenin analyzed ? Of course, we can't freeze Lenin's thought, but must ceaselessly move it to the present - and move based on that fresh thought. But just as Marx's ideas are a basis, extrapolated, for understanding today, so are Lenin's. Charles Brown >>> Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/18/99 12:12PM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >Whereas in the Wall Street Journal gems are far from rare. True. It's a great newspaper. Even the tension between the editorial and news pages is interesting; it's fascinating to speculate why the monied want clear, honest reporting of the news, but when it comes to reflecting on the news, they prefer such tortured, dishonest crap. Doug
