Saturday, April 05, 2008
Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback
The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:
This week's roundup starts, as it always does this week, with comic books, and a recent court ruling on the rights to Superman.
Of concern to all of us this week, Vanity Fair has a story on the danger of Monsanto to the food supply. Alternet says nutrition "science" has hijacked our meals, and could we drink beer and save the world?
The Nation celebrates Alice Notley.
In economics this week, the Boston Globe has the single most important story to ever hit those of us who love pancakes (read: everyone living and dead): the skyrocketing cost of maple syrup. Salon brings us The Great Depression redux; The Christian Science Monitor reports on the Wall Street crisis trickling down (something Reaganomics never did). The American Prospect reports on the FED and crony capitalism; Mother Jones says "it's deruglation, stupid", and Truth Dig reports on the decriminalization of corporate crime. Finally, The Financial Times Of London says false ideology is at the heart of the financial crisis.
Lastly this week, an important piece by Howard Zinn on empire or humanity.
This week's roundup starts, as it always does this week, with comic books, and a recent court ruling on the rights to Superman.
Of concern to all of us this week, Vanity Fair has a story on the danger of Monsanto to the food supply. Alternet says nutrition "science" has hijacked our meals, and could we drink beer and save the world?
The Nation celebrates Alice Notley.
In economics this week, the Boston Globe has the single most important story to ever hit those of us who love pancakes (read: everyone living and dead): the skyrocketing cost of maple syrup. Salon brings us The Great Depression redux; The Christian Science Monitor reports on the Wall Street crisis trickling down (something Reaganomics never did). The American Prospect reports on the FED and crony capitalism; Mother Jones says "it's deruglation, stupid", and Truth Dig reports on the decriminalization of corporate crime. Finally, The Financial Times Of London says false ideology is at the heart of the financial crisis.
Lastly this week, an important piece by Howard Zinn on empire or humanity.
# posted by Patrick : 8:12 AM
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That New Yorker article about comics is a pretty good read. It's too bad (and possibly ironic? at least in the Alanis Morrisette sense of the word?) that it's got that stupid New Yorker cartoon shoved right there in the middle of it...
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