The Rocket and The Bomb

[Mark Kohut]

Dear Jochen,

Too coy coming from you. SO exclusionary...."maybe the other German
speakers and readers can translate."?

Maybe you could too.....for a dialogue for all who want....

Despite who you wrote your thesis on, you too can and have in my opinion,
made mistakes in interpreting the media.

Mark

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-wes
>> tern-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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>>
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