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Friday, June 27, 2003
Christopher Lydon, natural-born
blogger. While the Supreme Court is kicking up its heels, we
continue to be hampered by a quiescent and complacent
press.
I've been negligent in not giving a
plug to a newish blog by veteran journalist Christopher
Lydon, although I have no
doubt that his many fans have discovered it anyway.
But here
it is -- and the most
recent entry is a link to a terrific column by Newsday's Jimmy
Breslin, who is appalled at the way his younger colleagues accept the
secrecy with which the government is fighting the war against terror.
Says Breslin: "You believe the FBI, you belong back in public
school."
Lydon also offers some intriguing
thoughts on Ralph Waldo Emerson, "A God for Bloggers" ("He is a man
for bloggers to embrace most especially, not for Emerson's glory but
for our own understanding of a transformative moment we are living
through"), and on the internecine warfare at the New York
Times.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
