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To: jbe who wrote (46231)	7/21/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Joan, Thanks for the post and link.. I agree wholeheartedly.. The press, itself likes to perpetuate the "liberal myth".. and the folks buy it as usual because they don't stop and think it out as people like you do.. Coug

To: jbe who wrote (46231)	7/21/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Interesting article. I did a quick look at Edward Herman's background. His PhD is from Berkeley, hardly a hotbed of conservatism. He has co-authored three books with Noam Chomsky. An interesting quote from an interview with him: "EH: The most important changes over the past several decades have been corporate capitalism's increasingly global perspective and reach, its increasing intolerance of welfare state commitments and labor organization and the social contract, and its willingness to attack these in various modes of intensified class warfare. " Source: lbbs.org Note the mention of "intensified class warfare." A classic Marxist argument, matched with open concern about capitalism. I didn't dig very far into his background, but what I did find suggests that he is far to the left, possibly (probably?) a Marxist economist. And a man whose writings appear clearly position-based, not objective. So it is hardly surprising that he attacks those who believe that there is a liberal bias in the media.