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Millison:  

<< Perhaps you strive so hard to discredit me
personally because you don't have a counter to
Pynchon's insight.>>
 
One offered counter were some points raised in a NY
Times op-ed article yesterday by Thomas Friedman. 

Millison's response:

<<F[riedman] is a popular columnist, certainly, and he
definitely knows which side of his bread is buttered
-- he's a bootlicker.>>

and

<<Pynchon's "grasp of world affairs hardly matches
Friedman's"  -- right you are, given the scope of
world affairs that Pynchon has addressed in his oeuvre
P's view considerably surpasses Friedman's.>>

Friedman's C.V., in part:

In 1978, he received a master's degree in Modern
Middle East Studies from Oxford and immediately
thereafter joined the London Bureau of United Press
International. Mr. Friedman spent a year in London
doing general assignment reporting before being
dispatched to Beirut as a UPI correspondent.
Mr. Friedman lived in Beirut from June 1979 to May
1981, when he was hired by The New York Times and
brought back to New York. From May 1981 to April 1982,
Mr. Friedman worked as a general assignment financial
reporter and specialized in OPEC and oil-related news.
In April 1982, he was assigned to be the Beirut Bureau
Chief, a post he took up six weeks before the Israeli
invasion.

In June 1984, Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut
to Jerusalem, where he served as The New York Times'
Israel Bureau Chief until February 1988, when he was
awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to write a
book about his reflections on the Middle East. In June
1989, he published From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG),
which was on The New York Times bestseller list for
twelve months and won the 1989 National Book Award for
non-fiction and the 1989 Overseas Press Club Award for
the Best Book on Foreign Policy. From Beirut to
Jerusalem has been published in ten different
languages, including Japanese and Chinese, and is now
used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many
high schools and universities.

In January 1989, Mr. Friedman took up a new assignment
in Washington as The New York Times' Chief Diplomatic
Correspondent. For the next four years he traveled
some 500,000 miles covering Secretary of State James
A. Baker 3d and the end of the Cold War. In November
1992, Mr. Friedman shifted to domestic politics and
was appointed Chief White House correspondent. He
covered the transition and first year of the Clinton
Administration.

In January 1994, Mr. Friedman shifted again, this time
to economics, and became The New York Times'
International Economics Correspondent, covering the
nexus between foreign policy and trade policy. In
January 1995, he became The New York Times Foreign
Affairs Columnist, only the fifth person to hold that
post in the paper's history.

For his coverage of the Middle East, Mr. Friedman was
awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize
for international reporting (from Israel).


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