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EXTRAORDINARY_COLLECTIVE_PUSILLANIMITY

                                             April     29, 2012
                                             July      15, 2012
                                             September 13, 2012

There's an obvioius critique of much
of the media, mainstream or otherwise,
liberal or otherwise, which can be
succinctly summarized as: "Where's Chomsky?":


From the title essay of
"What Are Intellectuals Good For?",       SCIALABBA
p.11 (formatting mine):

    "A well-known study by the
    sociologist Charles Kadushin                      KADUSHIN
    found that in 1970 Chomsky was
    one of the ten most influential
    American intellectuals. ... "

    "Chomsky ... has not for the last fifteen
    years been published ... in any of the
    following:                                    The last 15 years
                                                  as of of 1987. So
       _the New York Times Magazine_,             Chomsky was banned
       the _New York Times Book Review_,          around 1972?
       the _Washington Post_,
       the _Atlantic_,                                Chomsky used to publish
       _Harper's_,                                    regularly in the
       the _New Republic_,                            New York Review of Books.
       the _New York Review of Books_,                They ran a piece in 1967
       _Dissent_,                                     that Scialabba still
       _Commentary_,                                  points to as a favorite
       _Partisan Review_,                             favorite political
       _Foriegn Affairs_, or                          essay.  Chomsky continued
       _Foreign Policy_.                              to publish there until
       Nor has he once appeared on                    1970 or so.
       _Nightline_,
       the _MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour_,                     Did something happen
       National Public Radio's                            around 1970?  Israel
       _All Things Considered_ or                         went rogue in 1967.
       NPR's _Morning Edition_."
                                                      It is rather remarkable
    "Except as a target of occasional                 that they could manage to
    ignorant sneers, he is largely a                  ignore *everything* that
    nonperson in most of our leading                  Chomsky has written in
    cultural/politcal organs."                        recent decades, including
                                                      the rather popular book
    "This extraordinary collective                    "9/11".  Even if his work
    pusillanimity-- partly a result,                  was off-base somewhere,
    I suspect, of Chomsky's                           wouldn't it deserve a
    forthright criticism of Israeli                   critique?
    policies-- has taken its toll.
    Chomsky's heart has not turned to
    stone, but his prose style has
    sometimes turned raw."


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