August 18, 2003
One is Enough
Andrew Northrup (aka The Poor Man) has a short succinct post explaining why the US doesn't need an American Guardian.
There are a lot of complaints one might make about the American media - there are a lot of complaints one might make - but I don't think you could count "being insufficiently obsessed with Israel" as one of them.Read it all. The whole thing is good. Posted by Michael J. Totten at August 18, 2003 06:54 PM
I don't know. I think any newspaper that would dedicate a blog to ending agricultural subsidies is somewhat interesting. (Found at metafilter and samizdata)
Posted by: dragoon at August 18, 2003 09:19 PMDragoon,
I think the Guardian is somewhat interesting, too. The post just above this one links to a Guardian article, after all. I don't want to abolish it. I just agree with Andrew that we don't need another one...
Posted by: Michael J. Totten at August 18, 2003 09:36 PMThe Guardians so weird. It's about 80% brilliant, with a bonkers op-ed page (George Monbiot is my selection for worst writer in the business, if not ever) and all-too-frequent cases of allowing the desires of their constituency to get in the way of editorial judgement. The whole Wolfowitz/"it's all about the oil" episode from a few months back was pathetic, and that screw-up came with one or two other completely inaccurate stories, prompting the editorial staff to issue an apology saying, in effect "Sigh. We had a tough week." Meanwhile the NY Times was getting the 3rd degree because Jason Blair lied about Jessica Lynch's backyard. I'd be happy to have an American Guardian, provided the Guardian would hire a professional editor.
Posted by: Andrew Northrup at August 19, 2003 08:06 AMThe Guardian is often taken to task, and rightly so, for it's politically-infected news coverage and predictably anti-whatever editorials. But I'm often pleasantly suprised by the Guardian's willingness to grant column inches to distinctly different voices -- and I'd bet that it does so more often than The New York Times.
Posted by: Cosmo at August 19, 2003 10:41 AM
