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Subject: Re: Press Censorship - West : the subtle heavy-hand
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Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 01:48:35 EDT
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In article campbell%maynard.UUCP@harvisr.harvard.edu writes:

>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.

>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.

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.

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