Same as it ever was
The wars that news media conduct can be more interesting than the news they cover:
GORE VIDAL: See, I couldn’t really be published properly, because the New York Times had declared war on me, and they would never—they saw to it that I would never be reviewed.
AMY GOODMAN: Why did they declare war?
GORE VIDAL: If you don’t know this story, it’s too boring to go into.
AMY GOODMAN: But think of all the young people who are listening right now and who are watching.
GORE VIDAL: Well, I said, “Screw them,” and I went on. That’s for the young people listening. I don’t think any of the young people would be as hated by the Times as I was. It was hysteria.
AMY GOODMAN: Because?
GORE VIDAL: Well, work it out, work it out. Why would they be so hysterical? They got above their humble station, which is a pretty lousy establishment newspaper. And I don’t know. They got vain. They believed what they said about themselves: “all the news that’s fit to print.” Well, you know, almost nothing that was fit to print ever got in. And it’s as bad a newspaper today as it ever was. Democracy Now
posted by Tom Matrullo at Thursday, May 29, 2008
4 Comments:
Only one quibble with Vidal's points .. the NY Times today is a worse newspaper than it ever was.
Just an opinion.
You're so fair and so balanced .. and so right.
An old writer I once knew used to read aloud articles from the Times to me, always prefacing it by saying: The New York Times, Yes, All The News That's Fit To Shit...
Sometimes I think of ads I'd really like to see. That would be one of them, madame.
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