02-04-2013, 08:59 PM
Albert, I think its a mistake to think that because someone is a good liberal they automatically doubt the lone nut political assassination fantasies. I'm positing that she wouldn't even think of reading JFK and the Unspeakable. I'm sure she's read some Chomsky, definitely Zinn's A People's History and is a big fan of The Nation. Sure she may have seen the Stone movie and probably lumps it somewhere on her truth meter with A Parallax View. Look, I don't know Maddow personally, I could be wrong, but I'm not speaking totally out of ignorance when it comes to media people's private attitudes on CT matters, alas.
Jim, I think one has to take media people on a case by case basis. Frank Rich, for example, has played lip service to the Warren Consensus via William Manchester in a column but I'd bet my hat he knows (or suspects) that there is another layer to it all. I personally know Warren defenders in the media, liberal ones, who are completely convinced that Oswald "acted alone." The ones that don't cover this stuff don't think about it that much I suspect. Also: Let me take this opportunity to tell you how much I respect your work.
Jim, I think one has to take media people on a case by case basis. Frank Rich, for example, has played lip service to the Warren Consensus via William Manchester in a column but I'd bet my hat he knows (or suspects) that there is another layer to it all. I personally know Warren defenders in the media, liberal ones, who are completely convinced that Oswald "acted alone." The ones that don't cover this stuff don't think about it that much I suspect. Also: Let me take this opportunity to tell you how much I respect your work.