Big media uptake

by Chris Bertram on August 16, 2004

Nick Cohen, “writing in the New Statesman”:http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newTop=Section%3A+Front+Page&newDisplayURN=200408160014 cites “my post on John Laughland”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002269.html and his views from the other week. (Thanks to “Chris Brooke”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1368/weblog/blogger.html for letting me know.)

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Backword Dave 08.16.04 at 1:14 pm

You might be interested in the comments on Mick Hartley’s blog.

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Chris Bertram 08.16.04 at 2:05 pm

Thanks Dave. I’m afraid that MH’s is one of those sites where anyone who doesn’t sign up for the whole swivel-eyed MelanieP/Instapundit programme is an “enemy of freedom” and consigned to the Counterpunch/Chomsky camp. We’re a bit more selective and nuanced with our likes and dislikes over here!

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Backword Dave 08.16.04 at 2:26 pm

Ah, Chris, that’s not true. Both James Hamilton and Mick have been good enough to link to me, and I’m a long way from the MelanieP/Instapundit camp. Mick also has some very good stuff on Sudan and the situation in Iraq. I often disagree with him, but he’s not barking.

I found the comments amusing. I’d have stuck up for you if I could have thought of something pithy to say.

I think that James’s point was that Nick Cohen was pro-invasion and CT was largely against. When he singled you out, he seems not to have been aware of that, given that he’s spent quite a lot of bile on what Harry calls ‘Stoppers’ himself.

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Ophelia Benson 08.16.04 at 4:11 pm

Yeah I saw that big media uptake when I linked to the NS article Saturday via Normblog – and I was way impressed. Especially since Cohen cited it as useful original research. I simply assumed you knew about it or I would have let you know (and thus that would be my name in the parenthesis and you would have known about it two days ago). Anyway, hurrah!

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John Kozak 08.16.04 at 10:05 pm

“big” media? Doesn’t CT have more readers than the Staggers (seriously)?

Good to see Nick Cohen still trudging along in Paul Johnson’s footsteps.

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dsquared 08.16.04 at 11:39 pm

I must say that the ignoble thought did occur in my mind that it was a bit rich for someone to write in the NS about how anything else was on its last legs and had no real point to it any more.

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John Quiggin 08.17.04 at 1:02 pm

This piece was reprinted in today’s Melbourne Age, but abridged, and without mention of Chris’ post.

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harry 08.17.04 at 4:53 pm

Since john kozak mentions the great man, does anyone remember the wonderful piece Hitchens once wrote about Paul Johnson? Its in one of his Verso collections, and he’s never written a wittier, more brutal character assassination (and that’s saying soemthing). Are these anti-anti-war leftists also ditching other left-wing commitments? It looks like it from Cohen, but I’ve not followed Hitchens well enough to tell.

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Ophelia Benson 08.17.04 at 5:34 pm

I think so, vaguely. I’ll have to find it. I have his collections. Hitchens certainly hasn’t given up his commitment to, er, disadmiring Kissinger, at any rate.

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