Diamonds and colonialism (fwd)

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I do think that there are "some" honest reporters in New York Times, but i
do not think that it is the "best" newspaper in the world. This
generalization requires a qualitative comparison of different newspapers
around the globe first. Then, we may agree or disagree about the
specifics. To me, it is Al-Ahram (let's say), to you it is New
York Times. Even if you read major headlines on a daily basis, many third
world issues are hardly mentioned in details, given very little
substantive emphasis on the back pages. Whatever mentioned is mostly US
centric designed to fit the US foreign policy goals and its hegomonic
long term interests in specific terms.

I think Raymond Banner deserves to be in much better places rather
than being insulted by corporate capital interests. We really need such
critics within the ranks of anti-systemic media.

thanx...

Mine


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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:21:26 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
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To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:17765] Diamonds and colonialism (fwd)

>I really wonder why New York Times and bourgeois sources like
>this suddenly rediscover Africa's heritage of colonalism!! Overall, it
>does not seem to me more than an "orientalist" sympaty of reconstructing
>the "other": we killed the folks, and let's do something to compansate it.
>
>ohhhh!!..
>
>Mine

The NY Times is much more complex. There are continual battles going on
over how to report, either in the interests of the truth or in the
interests of the State Department. Raymond Bonner was an honest reporter
who dared to question the Reaganite line on Central America. Finally he was
purged. I think everybody should read the NY Times on a daily basis, either
in print or on the web. It is the best newspaper in the world, regardless
of its editorial stance.

Louis Proyect

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