3 ms·
“Bloggers couldn’t find that themselves,” he said, “because they’re corrupted, or they couldn’t afford to spend the time.” Actually, I'm pretty sure that blogg
by mechanical_fish 16y ago
“Bloggers couldn’t find that themselves,” he said, “because they’re corrupted, or they couldn’t afford to spend the time.”
Actually, I'm pretty sure that bloggers have known about the Koch brothers for many years. The reason this guy had to wait until the New Yorker wrote about them might be that this guy doesn't read anything that isn't in the New Yorker.
EDIT: Changed the wording a bit. As Daffy Duck used to say: "pronoun trouble".
- rst 16y agoCounterpoint: some of the best reporting on the nuts and bolts of the subprime mortgage mess, while it was happening, was by a semi-retired mortgage broker pseudonymously blogging as "Tanta", who never got paid a dime for it. When she died, she was mourned by everyone from Tyler Cowen to Paul Krugman. The pseudonym was because, if her cancer ever went into remission, she wanted to be able to get a job, and she thought it might be a handicap to have (quite rightly) savaged just about every major company in the industry. The announcement of her death was the first most of her readers had ever seen her name --- Doris Dungey. EDIT: Counterpoint to Lanier, that is. Sorry 'bout that.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoThe fact that this comes labeled "counterpoint" makes we worry that I've screwed up my writing. I think this was my point. ;)