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I.F. Stone or Edmund Wilson: Just who would have been the better blogger?
November 3, 2007 | 4:46 pm
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By David Rothman
We’re really talking apples and oranges here, muck-blogging vs. literary blogging, but who do you think would have been better at it?
(1) I.F. Stone (photo), the D.C. journalist famous for exposing official lies during the Vietnam war, among other eras. Or…
(2) Edmund Wilson—”Bunny” to his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, just one of the many lit greats he championed. (Thanks to Mike Cane for helping me spot this one.)
And speaking of smelly D.C. muck: Check out Corporate-funded research designed to influence public policy—including telecom-related matters—in Nieman Watchdog. Also of interest: Librarians say surveillance bills lack adequate oversight along with Blackwater owner has spies for hire: Ex-U.S. operatives dot firm’s roster, both in the Washington Post. So what’s ahead? A private CIA, beyond close congressional oversight, snooping into your DRMed reading on the Sony Reader? I wish people would get it. (Once again, thanks to Mike.)
Technorati Tags: I.F. Stone , Edmund Wilson , Scott Fitzgerald , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Blackwater , CIA , Sony Reader
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IF Stone would be a better blogger since he gullibly fell for almost as many lies as he exposed. He’d have had a great DailyKos diary.
I mean, its kind of sad that the best thing people can say about Stone these days is that he probably was not a paid agent of the KGB. Instead it was his own ideological blindness that kept him waiting until 1956 to finally admit the USSR “is not a good society and it is not led by honest men”. Not exactly speaking truth to power.