A week ago the popular news and gossip website Gawker published an article titled “Who Are the 'Revolutionary Communists' Allegedly Agitating in Ferguson?” by Michelle Deane, the author of such illuminating pieces such as “Your End-of-August Cocktail Is A Lemon Rosemary Vodka Fizz”.
Since I confess to not being a regular Gawker reader, I thought I’d take a quick look at its provenance through the generally reliable Wikipedia. A Brit named Nick Denton, whose politics are rather hard to pin down, launched it in 2003. His main ambition seems to be making money. For some odd reason, he decided to launch a website inspired by the sorry career of Tina Brown, the former editor of “Vanity Fair”, the obvious inspiration for Gawker. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/08/26/outside-agitators-in-ferguson-missouri/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
