Re: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview

2017-01-03 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2017-01-02 22:45, C.Robbins wrote: > Without question the article on Assange was the epitomy of "bad > journalism", "Fake news" or whatever trending tagline one wishes to > assign to biased delivery of, and 24/7 consumption of propaganda > ... and, yes, Ben Jacobs, accompanied by thousands of o

Re: John_Berger (5 November 1926 - 2 January 2017)

2017-01-03 Thread David Garcia
Perhaps John Berger’s closest equivalent in the US is Susan Sontag. They were friends perhaps linked by being uncompromising public intellectuals operating in cultures generaly unsympathetic to intellectuals (though Berger made his home in rural France). Both were also ambitious novelists who a

Re: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview

2017-01-03 Thread Carsten Agger
On 01/03/2017 10:18 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote: On 2017-01-02 22:45, C.Robbins wrote: Without question the article on Assange was the epitomy of "bad journalism", "Fake news" or whatever trending tagline one wishes to assign to biased delivery of, and 24/7 consumption of propaganda ... and, yes,