the one on Iran in which Israel and the US are trying to do to Tehran what they did to Gaza, the one on us, the ones on eveyone else that the Trumpzi regime is bringing.
So here's a section of an old interview by the great and too little read Susan Faludi and the great, late Molly Ivins during a fundraiser for Mother Jones Magazine.
I have most of Molly Ivins books, maybe it will be a project for the rest of the year to read Susan Faludi's. Backlash is one of the books that has made the strongest impression of me of any I've read.
Although access to public fora has not, it turns out, assuaged the citizenry. If anything, it just made them yell louder. And the internet has yet to produce a writer as brilliant and insightful and intelligent and funny as the late Ms. Ivins. If one comes along, I wonder how they would replicate her success, without a Texas Observer or a Dallas Times Herald? One advantage to print media was it was not every person her/his own soapbox.
ReplyDeleteThe world of well-written journalism printed on paper might be a thing of the past. Like all such cultural changes, and the technology to print journalism on relatively inexpensive paper and send it out to be bought is one of those cultural changes, it will change the world and probably, in this case, for the worse. Every once in a while I look at things like the sci-fi pulps that published Ray Bradbury and Clifford Simak and am amazed at how they put one out every month and sold them for a pittance.
DeleteI heard the Epstein rumors about Ellen Degeneres and looked it up to find out that the rumors that she was in thick with Epstein and was Hollywood's worst caniable followed on her atypical political posting expressing her sympathies for Renee Goode's familiy. And now it's all over the place, who knows if it will destroy her career or lead to her being assassinated, as Hillary Clinton mentioned in regard to Q-Anon.
I disagree with Molly Ivins' free-speech absolutism and said I did when she started expressing it, I think I wrote a letter to Mother Jones about that way, way back, as I recall it was not published. I wonder if she saw what had become of it since that interview if she'd still hold that position.
Thank you for reminding me that I've got to look up the Susan Faludi books I haven't read yet. Sometimes I wish the internet would disapper except it would make looking for used books a lot harder.