26-08-2013, 03:34 PM
Joseph have you ever wondered why JFK gets all the Roshomon metaphors? Why the rest of the presidents don't get their share? Perhaps we could start a campaign?
No seriously Joseph one of the things that most interests me about your book is your comments on The Nation magazine and, briefly, The Progressive.
You seem to want to stick to the reportorial mode here and not delve TOO deeply into the question of why these OSTENSIBLY "left" magazines would do so much to protect the National Security State. My questions are
1) have you done much background reading on propaganda history during the Cold War (lord knows I would not have had time for it, given all the research you did on this book, plus having a day job)
2) speaking more informally what would you speculate is the reason for these ostensibly left publications to be working so hand in noir glove with the intelligence agencies?
Increasingly, it seems to me "With a """"left""""" like this... (trilateral dot-fire)"
No seriously Joseph one of the things that most interests me about your book is your comments on The Nation magazine and, briefly, The Progressive.
You seem to want to stick to the reportorial mode here and not delve TOO deeply into the question of why these OSTENSIBLY "left" magazines would do so much to protect the National Security State. My questions are
1) have you done much background reading on propaganda history during the Cold War (lord knows I would not have had time for it, given all the research you did on this book, plus having a day job)
2) speaking more informally what would you speculate is the reason for these ostensibly left publications to be working so hand in noir glove with the intelligence agencies?
Increasingly, it seems to me "With a """"left""""" like this... (trilateral dot-fire)"