The Rocket and The Bomb

[Jochen Stremmel]

Do brilliance and bias contradict each other? Not necessarily you seem to
think. And I seem to agree.

But perhaps you should define journalism. I wrote my PHD thesis about a man
who said: Ein Feuilleton schreiben heißt auf einer Glatze Locken drehen.
Kai or Thomas may want to translate.

2017-05-03 15:33 GMT+02:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:

> Brilliance is rare.
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:33 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Press is selling a product. There is Reporting and Journalism in
> > the NYT and in the Guardian and some of it is brilliant.
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Neither does Thomas say that there is reporting.
> >>
> >> Can only reporting be brilliant?
> >>
> >> 2017-05-03 14:58 GMT+02:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> Why trust Howard over a NYT journalist or a Guardian journalist? The
> >>> Times has brilliance, from time to time, so does the Guardian. Not
> >>> that we should trust either, generally, on geopolitics or Washington
> >>> politics, though they do a decent job on both. Also, there's nothing
> >>> brilliant in Howard's reporting here. In fact, there is no reporting
> >>> in what you describe as brilliant.
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> >>> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >>> > Thank you very much for your recollections and thoughts, Monte!
> >>> >
> >>> > As for the present situation, this may be of interest:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2017/04/21/
> 94c24315/Beyond%20the%20Nuclear%20Threshold.pdf
> >>> >
> >>> > Including a reference to an incident in 1995 that I was not aware of:
> >>> >
> >>> > 'A frightening example of things going terribly wrong was provided by
> >>> > the
> >>> > 1995 accident
> >>> > involving the launch of a Norwegian geodesic rocket, which was taken
> for
> >>> > a
> >>> > Trident 2
> >>> > missile, triggering the Russian early warning system. The event was
> >>> > urgently
> >>> > reported to
> >>> > the president, the “Cheget” system was activated, and Boris Yeltsin,
> as
> >>> > he
> >>> > said later, for
> >>> > several minutes held his finger “on the nuclear button” – until the
> >>> > incident
> >>> > was settled.'
> >>> >
> >>> > The tensions are, of course, fueled by a constant barrage of atrocity
> >>> > propaganda in the service of the empire:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/lets-call-
> western-media-coverage-of-syria-for-what.html
> >>> >
> >>> > Howard's brilliant article makes abundantly clear why many people on
> the
> >>> > left, including myself, nowadays do not trust the NYT (or the
> Washington
> >>> > Post or the Guardian or the Zeit or the Spiegel) at all when it
> comes to
> >>> > geopolitics: "They keep pumping out the propaganda, day in, day out,
> >>> > never
> >>> > stopping to reflect on the potential consequences."
> >>> >
> >>> > The potential consequences, of course, include thermonuclear war.
> >>> > -
> >>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>> -
> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
> >>
> >>
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