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Art Spiegelman resigns from New Yorker to protest
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Thursday February 13, 2003 20:43 by Phuq Hedd
Author of (Q) For what do you reproach the New Yorker? For marching to the same beat as the New York Times and all the other great American media that don't criticize the government for fear that the administration will take revenge by blocking their access to sources and information. Mass media today is in the hands of a limited group of extremely wealthy owners whose interests don't coincide at all with those of the average soul living in a country (USA) where the gap between rich and poor is now unbridgeable. In this context, all criticism of the administration is automatically branded unpatriotic and un-American. Our media choose to ignore news that in the rest of the world receives wide prominence; if it were not for the Internet, even my view of the world would be extremely limited. This is why indymedia is so important: "they" can't take the truth away if you are the one making it. I've written to Maus to tell him to forget the NYT and "The Nation" and to start writing and drawing for Indymedia. Meanwhile, back in Ireland: Indymedia.ie: Get Involved! Join us Feb 15! Join our two new IMC-IRL Workgroups:
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