Probably he figured that the New York Times would be less likely to publish his piece if he slammed the media. :)
The low-key media response to the Wall Street protests is a good case in point. And, in fact, the failure of the media to report on left protests has an impact on the choices that activists make. It takes a lot of resources to organize a major demonstration. So, if you are thinking about where to put your resources, and thinking about putting resources into organizing a major demonstration compared to other things, the fact that the media is not likely to report a major demonstration is something you are going to take into account. On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Joseph Catron wrote: >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/whatever-happened-to-the-american-left.html >> > > Kazin: >>And yet, except for the demonstrations and energetic recall campaigns that >>roiled Wisconsin this year, unionists and other stern critics of corporate >>power and government cutbacks have failed to organize a serious movement >>against the people and policies that bungled the United States into >>recession.... How do we account for the relative silence of the left?< > > part of the answer is that the plutocrat-owned media shun reporting > about anything that the "left" (or lefts) says or does (unless, of > course, the left does something that make left-wing ideas and forces > look bad). > > It's strange that Kazin doesn't mention this, since most of the rest > of his piece is about ideas and their dissemination instead of actual > mass movements. (BTW, we need both better ideas -- as Kazin suggests > -- and a movement. Neither of them is sufficient to create the other.) > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
