The Rocket and The Bomb

[ish mailian]

Cockburn is brilliant, sometimes.  But he too falls into the foolish
game of bashing the media. A waste of brilliance.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2017 08:58:32 -0400
>  ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> No. It is war propaganda, pure and simple. Just like in 2002 and 2003. The
> Guardian's cooking section is quite okay, though...
>
>> Also, there's nothing
>> brilliant in Howard's reporting here. In fact, there is no reporting
>> in what you describe as brilliant.
>
>
> Yes, make that "commendable". Of course, I didn't say "reporting".
>
> Cf. "Who supplies the news? Patrick Cockburn on misreporting in Syria and
> Iraq":
>
> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n03/patrick-cockburn/who-supplies-the-news
>
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