Michelle Goldberg’s Salon cover story yesterday, documenting how some of the biggest protests organized against Bush’s Iraqi war plans have been organized by groups on the far-left fringe (Revolutionary Communist Party, supporters of the Shining Path, and so forth), has evoked a blistering response from Toby’s Political Diary:
The reason Goldberg’s article was so bad was that it missed an important story for some ridiculous fluff that even sounded like old fashioned red baiting. The important story is not the reincarnation of the factions of the 1970’s left, but rather the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people to make political sense of their lives by connecting their day to day experience of work and environmental degradation with the larger issue of corporate control and America’s role in the world. |
I think a lot of us at Salon would agree that that’s an “important story” — while defending the importance and relevance of Goldberg’s article. We’ll keep covering both kinds of stories. In the meantime, there are some well-considered comments on Toby’s post as well.
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