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Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 19:48:42 EDT
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> >His name is Alexander Cockburn, and he is one of the most trenchant
> >commentators on the political scene today.
> 
> The very same Mr. Cockburn who is fond of decrying the influence of
> the evil capitalist system on journalism was fired from his post at
> the Village Voice a while back.  It seems that Mr. Trenchant
> concealed the fact that he was under hire by a pro-Arab organization
> for "research" that was to end in publication.

You must believe, Sam, that anti-capitalists should just starve rather
than make money?  Or is it that being pro-Arab is a sin?  When you
indicated by mail to me this assertion, I asked you to provide
references ... consider me to be asking for them again.

The local weekly *The Isthmus* just started carrying Cockburn, to rave
reviews.

> >The Nation is a must-read,
> >not only for Cockburn's wonderful biweekly column, entitled "Beat
> >the Devil", but for the best investigative and political reporting
> >I've ever seen on either end of the political spectrum.  Don't miss
> >it!
> 
> Yes, the Nation is a must read, if you go in for chic anti-semitism.
> Gore Vidal's blatantly anti-semitic piece in the recent anniversary
> edition of the Nation was, without a doubt, the most vitriolic piece
> of Jew-hatred to appear in the "legitimate" press in the past
> decade.

You obviously didn't read the equally vitrolic debate in *The
Nation's* letter columns for the next two months.  No doubt you do not
read the magazine and only read about Vidal's article in the *New
Republic*.  A truly anti-Semitic magazine wouldn't print such scathing
rebuttals in such numbers.

> It's no surprise that such a stellar journalist find a home at such
> an august journal...  And it is similarly unremarkable that folks
> who believe in an oxymoronic and non-existent "subtle heavy-hand" of
> press censorship (in a country in which plans for the hydrogen bomb
> have been published!)  enjoy such rubbish.

Go back and read *The Nation's* reporting of the *Progressive's*
attempts [finally successful] to print the H-bomb stuff, or the report
on the FBI investigations of *The Nation* over the years [based on
info released to them recently via the FOIA].

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