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From: jablow@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Robert Jablow)
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Subject: Re: Kaddafi
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 01:46:55 EDT
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In article <228@cad.UUCP> hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab) writes:

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>Alexander Cockburn's "pro-Arab" sympathies caused him to lose his
>Village Voice job. He currently writes for The Nation magazine.

Alexander Cockburn was not fired for his "sympathies".  He was fired
because he took money from an Arab academic/lobbying organization while
he was writing pro-Arab articles for the Voice.  This is unethical
behavior because it leaves the impression that he will write anything
in favor of a group if that group pays him for it.  It violated
well-known canons of journalism.

Mr. Cockburn is an arrogant man.  He feels that if the cause is just he
is prohibited nothing.  Now, Cockburn is quick to jump on other
journalists when they perform similar unethical acts.  For example, he
crowed when the NY Daily News fired George Will after he wrote a speech
for Reagan and then analyzed it on an ABC show, but he is not objective
enough to look at his own actions critically.

He also has some strange ideas and prejudices.  For example, he panned
Jonathan Schell's *The Fate of the Earth* because it appeared in *The
New Yorker* and *The New Yorker* is a "snob magazine".  After that
every baseball fan on the VV staff went after Cockburn with a
Louieville Slugger.

			Respectfully,
			Eric Robert Jablow
			MSRI
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