August 21, 2003

SCLM
I've been reading Eric Alterman's book What Liberal Media, which, predictably, has me all worked up (and which a decent majority of my dozen readers would find interesting enough to blow a couple of beach days on). Then I suddenly ran across this New York article via cursor.

Ann Moore, while she openly shuddered over the AOL merger, still thought Time Inc. did pretty fine work without corporate interference. And Michael Kinsley, who was there with his new wife, Patty Stonesifer, who runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said sanguinely, "I don't see the problem, frankly," and then offered a defense of big media and Bill Gates.
Indeed, nowhere at the conference, really, was there controversy. In some sense, the theme of the conference, even, was a rejection of controversy-much talk about the erosion of civic trust that came from partisanship.
The state of the world might be bad, but there was a sense here of the brainpower to make it better. ...
Nice.
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Kid
Due date was today. No news.
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