M&D truthtelling, history & I.F. Stone(WAS Publisher's Weekly (fwd)

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Finally a note of nuance to this increasingly boring I'm right-you're wrong binary
slamfest, when...

Tom asked Sojourner:
>I'm curious: how do you feel about live theatre or music?  does putting
>something onto some sort of video or projection screen automatically make
>them less intellectually challenging? or can ALL of the performing arts be
>dismissed as easily as television because they are passive activities?
>because all people do is view them or _listen_ to them (another passive
>verb).  Is literature the Queen of the Arts after all simply because the
>density of symbols that require decrypting is so high?
>




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