Pynchon interviewed in Playboy Japan re 9-11

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Phil Wise" <philwise at paradise.net.nz>
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>
> From outside the US, it is very easy to see that the editorial tone of the
> NYT has shifted considerably from then to now.  If he regards it as
> propaganda, why get up for it?  There's a lot of mainstream US media
that's
> open to that criticism right now, and whatever your view of whether that's
a
> good or bad thing, or of whether you agree with the messages contained in
> the propaganda (nothing wrong with agreeing with propaganda, so long as
> you've done yr independent thinking), you might as well recognise that
> there's a lot of propaganda there.
>


Editorial tone? People don't read the Times for editorial tone. They read it
to find out what is happening.  One reads the alternative media to find out
what someone wishes was happening. The Guardian may still be a good
newspaper too.

This having been said it may nevertheless be that the editorial tone of the
Times has shifted. I will start paying more attention. If it's become
superpatriotic that would be deplorable. Perhaps they are still in shock in
Times Square.  From my reading their reporters around the Globe are still in
their usual fine conditiion however.. Same for the Washington Post.

As for Pynchon, not too much should be made out of what at best is a
translation of a translation.

. P.