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God Bless Rolling Stone!

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Issue 1108 – July 8, 2010

Everyone who knows me will tell you I would marry Rolling Stone if I could.  😉 Ah, yes, The Now World-Famous Feature, which finally came in the mail yesterday.  As usual, “On The Media” did a great job explaining why McCrystal’s aides felt so free. And as usual, “Democracy Now!” did a great job of  illuminating the larger political context.  I’m still confused as to the outbursts by David Brooks and Lara Logan, since, like my hero Matt Taibbi, I was taught in journalism school that you don’t worry about the reaction to/results of the story. (Gordon Parks understood this best: I remember reading that he told the Black Panthers and others he covered to not say or do anything in front of him that they didn’t want in Life magazine.) Clearly Brooks and Logan are too close to power to remember that. Logan, the reporter of the two, should know better.

AUGUST 10th UPDATE: I’m sure Hastings is not surprised by this. And I wasn’t surprised by this.

The Last Word On……..

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…..the debate between Jews on Gaza. Once again, NPR’s “On The Media” provides great (mainstream) radio. I also enjoyed the reaction.

……Helen Thomas. Damn. Talk about no one being safe. The real loss is the vaccuum of White House press corps skepticism that will now be all too evident.

…….Wilbert Rideau’s coming out party. Congrats!

CLICK THE ABOVE IMAGE for additional PHOTOS OF DEBRAHLEE LORENZANA.

…….the woman who claims she got fired from her job because she was too fine. I believe her! LOL! 🙂 Yes, sue, sue, sue! And CONGRATS to my blog sponsor Saswat, who took the inital pictures of her seen around the globe! My friend Saswat is now a prominent photojournalist in addition to being a new daddy and a revolutionary! Hat trick! LOL!

Asante Sana, Lena Horne

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I hope you find peace in the Realm of the Ancestors. You sure worked hard enough for it.

I’m glad that your commitment to what Negro newspapers used to call “the race” has not been forgotten. I’ll never forget how shocked I was to see your Op-Eds in The People’s Voice on the same page as Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois!

A Note On (Online) Book Reviewing

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The bruhaha about online book reviewing, etc. made me think about stating my policy here. And so:

I take the MSM line all the way. Which is:

I’m a journalist who likes to review books. I’ve done so for a national newspaper wire service, national magazines and online (including this blog. ) Because of that, I’m on publishers’ journalistic reviewer lists. That means I get free books from them. Sometimes I review them, sometimes I don’t. If I get a postcard announcing a book and want to review it, I contact the publisher and do a review.

I say what I want to say, and then I file the book away or give it to someone. And that’s all *I* wrote. 🙂