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Some fictional horrors of war
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| Jan. 19, 2008
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 01/19/2008 6:11:40 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: knews_hound
On, please! Thanks for the ping!
41
posted on
01/20/2008 3:13:24 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(My memory's not as good as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as good as it used to be.)
To: Pokey78; Tolik
Steyn ping. He’s pretty spot on here.
42
posted on
01/20/2008 4:18:29 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: knews_hound
Thanks for the ping and taking over the list. Viva Steyn indeed!
43
posted on
01/20/2008 5:15:19 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: knews_hound
Yes, PLEASE keep me on the Steyn Ping list, and thank you very much.
Dave—(Moonhawk)
44
posted on
01/20/2008 6:35:24 PM PST
by
moonhawk
(Fear and Loathing in '08: Hunter/Thompson)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Harmless Teddy Bear
There is more than a grain of truth to your comment, and to Iowahawk's now-famous
Bylines of Brutality.
Broadcast journalism in particular is propbably the most competitive and fastest paced profession in the world. There are only a handful of job openings for each new graduating class, and even some of those do not go to journalism school graduates. The stakes in turn are enormously high. Fame and immense fortune can result for the lucky few, and utter failure for a lot more. One cannot help but wonder what kind of driven, obsessive personality is required to reach the very top in such an environment.
On top of that, we have the journalism culture itself, the characteristic internal culture of the media-industrial complex as I have called it. As documented by Thomas Frank in his brilliant cultural history, The Conquest of Cool, this internal culture is still solidly based on the counterculture of the 1960s. This brings its own set of attendant problems and distortions.
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posted on
01/20/2008 6:58:42 PM PST
by
atomic conspiracy
(Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
To: knews_hound
Yes, please keep me on the Steyn list, thanks.
46
posted on
01/20/2008 8:30:03 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(Democrats are phony Americans)
To: knews_hound
Oh, yeah! Keep me on the Steyn list!
47
posted on
01/20/2008 9:46:23 PM PST
by
RhoTheta
("I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." NOT!)
To: knews_hound; Pokey78
Thanks for the ping.
Hope all works out well for Pokey78; thanks to him also.
To: Tax-chick
49
posted on
01/21/2008 4:58:14 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Gently alluding to the indisputably obvious is not gloating." ~Richard John Neuhaus)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Steyn is brilliant, as usual.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:39:17 AM PST
by
TChris
("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
To: IowaHawk
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posted on
02/04/2008 10:17:48 AM PST
by
Dr.Deth
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