tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post6399255068533436174..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Islamophobiatruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-6576169162364523902008-08-22T23:25:00.000-07:002008-08-22T23:25:00.000-07:00If your summer is extending beyond the season and ...If your summer is extending beyond the season and you still want to read a bit, then based on the interview with Crichton, allow me to propose some more titles:<BR/><BR/>Philip Knightly, The First Casualty.<BR/><BR/>Crichton refers to it obliquely in his run-down of the development of the pyramid style of journalism, among other things. It's a great book or war reportage and American history. <BR/><BR/>One of my favorite writers, now dead, is Neil Postman. I haven't read the one work most directly related to the post you entered, Amusing Ourselves to Death; but I have read Technopoly and Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century. Postman is a good writer, a good thinker, and from what I know of him from his work, a good person. <BR/><BR/>There's an entire industry within the publishing world dedicated to media critique, but Postman is good regardless of ones interest in that. Postman is an all-round intellectual, a smart and critical and sensitive thinker. I think he' as easy to read and follow as anything in the daily newspaper, though I've met a few people who find him difficult. The three of us here, and others beyond, will certainly be happy to discuss anything that might arise if there's difficulty. <BR/><BR/>And thanks again, Walker, for the post.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833622800266623295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-24605417593909822862008-08-22T11:09:00.000-07:002008-08-22T11:09:00.000-07:00It's interesting to see how such things as "Islamo...It's interesting to see how such things as "Islamophobia" develop, isn't it? Almost amazing how duped we can be by those who want us all to be "politically correct". It's hard to have a discussion when you feel rude throughout the entire thing. <BR/><BR/>I've found Crichton to be a voice of very knowledgable reason. He's not just a novelist. I would say he's an intellectual in his own right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com