On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > michael perelman wrote: >> http://www.shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist/ >> >> Yasha Levine just sent me this. >> >> I never paid much attention to Gladwell. From what I gathered, he was >> just a smarty-pants twerp. This piece is devastating. > > Isn't this a victory in some ways, i.e., the fact that right-winger > like Gladwell is writing seemingly harmless fluff like THE TIPPING > POINT instead of acting like James O’Keefe or Dinesh D’Souza? or are > his books harmful, tilting people to the right in a significant way? > To me, he seems to be surfing the current Zeitgeist much more than > steering it.
A more sophisticated version of Tommy Friedman. Gladwell is to Friedman as the New Yorker is to the NYT. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
