Steve Roberts, as a young NYTimes reporter in the fall of 1971, did a NYTMag story on the communes and collectives in Berkeley, including houses peopled by among others Bob Scheer, Tom Hayden, Dan Siegel, Barbara Dudley, Doren Weinberg. The story was virtually free of editorializing, letting the participants tell their story and setting the scene in the communes and free clinic, etc., about as fairly as could be expected. Steve Roberts had been an undergraduate classmate of Dan Siegel at Hamilton, and he seemed to have the latitude and understanding in writing the story to preserve that friendship. Of course, the politics at that time and place included a lot of emphasis on lifestyle, but he fairly described the more radical aspects as well. One of the houses, The Red Fox Collective, was owned by me, and with a mortgage of only $250 a month, we were all, the nine housemates, able to live on a budget per month for food and lodging of $65 each. I remember someone saying that the dinner hour was like a football training table, and that when we slept, the whole building shook with the energy of our collective breathing.
Ralph > [Original Message] > From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 11/28/2005 6:13:16 AM > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Woodward thick with 'Senior Officials' > > >today, on U.S. National Public Radio, there was a story about the > >recent demise of Hugh Sidey, late of TIME magazine. Former President > >Ford had stated a eulogy for him, among other things saying that he > >wished that Sidey could write _his_ eulogy. The newsreader asked Cokie > >Roberts if this kind of close relationship between the politicians and > >the news media could exist today. She said alas no. > > Actually, her husband Steve Roberts is a much tougher reporter, showing up > on WABC radio's Kuby-Sliwa talk show of all places. He is a pretty good > critic of the war in Iraq and generally comes across as straightforward as > opposed to the slush that comes out his wife's mouth. > > -- > > www.marxmail.org
