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| 2007-11-16 |
| Interesting Interview with Kurt Loder [WeeklyStandard] Just posted at Reason magazine's new reason.tv is a segment with Kurt Loder, who was once the editor of Rolling Stone and has been a news anchor at MTV for as long as I can remember. He is also a veteran of the Army. In the course of a discussion with Reason editor Nick Gillespie on "technology and freedom," Loder brings up the New Republic's Baghdad Diarist: "Blogging and the internet has changed that entirely, it's broken up the monopoly on information. Just for one example, the Baghdad Diarist at the New Republic, which was a total fraud, was exposed by military bloggers, who came out and said this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, this is a lie, it's a smear on all soldiers. That wouldn't have happened 20 years ago." The Beauchamp bit comes at about six and a half minutes into the video. Look for the editors at the New Republic to denounce Loder as just another in a long line of "ideologically motivated" critics. Link to Interview and Q&A |
| Posted by:danking70 |
| #1 Look for the editors at the New Republic to denounce Loder as just another in a long line of "ideologically motivated" critics. That would be a crock. I've always thought of Loder as a member of the Left; I suppose the editor stint at Rolling Stone means he's a Rupert Murdoch foot soldier... |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-11-16 08:08 |