“Lessons from the original blogger”
A well-chosen set of excerpts by Washington journalist I.F. Stone, who self-published I.F. Stone’s Weekly from 1953 to 1971.
The collection reads better if you find the printed version in this month’s Utne magazine, which I did while waiting for my espresso at Peet’s Coffee in the basement of Whole Foods. But this online version has all the same words. Plus if you’re like me, you won’t have to worry about being seen reading Utne in Peet’s - at Whole Foods! In San Francisco! In Pacific Heights for God’s sake!
I think Stone would’ve been able to explain the complications better than me. By the time you get to the part where he writes, “If battle is joined and our country polarized, as both the revolutionists and the repressionists wish, it is the better and not the worse side of America which will be destroyed,” you’ll see what I mean. Starbucks or Peet’s? We can work it out.