The guy is getting senile and your point about his political virginity is right on.
Basically, he married money and has been pontificating ever since. I still have his collection of real journalism "Corruptions of Empire" -- and I used to read his Beat the Devil column with interest. But those days are gone. Good journalism is more than pontificating. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- Monday Jul 9, 2012 10:24 am An Unauthorized Interview with Alexander Cockburn By Bhaskar Sunkara Alexander Cockburn isn’t one for succinct titles. His recent Counterpunch blast, "Biggest Financial Scandal in Britain’s History, Yet Not a Single Occupy Sign; What Happened?" even has a semi-colon. The same long-windedness is lost in the body of that essay, as Cockburn dismisses the Occupy movement's accomplishments and future prospects in just a few hundred words. It's typical Cockburn. Meaning, he's not all wrong, he just chooses to use a polemical broadstroke when something more subtle would do, opening himself up to attack from people who he could be honestly engaging with. In uncharacteristically clinical fashion, I'm going to breakdown and rebut some of Cockburn's points in an "unauthorized interview" to ensure of a pleasant and charming conversation. full: http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/13504/an_unauthorized_interview_with_alexander_cockburn/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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