World Wise?? Updated

[first published: Septemeber 18, 2008]

(Images: Reporters Without Borders handcuff graphic on Notre Dame, ad from the 9/15/08 issue of the New Yorker, handcuff graphic again in large city)

The latest issue of the New Yorker, dated September 15, 2008, clearly illustrates the extent to which this great Liberal magazine has declined.

The above is a full-page ad for Morgan Stanley from the issue [which looks something like their Absolute Vodka ads, the association no doubt intended]. The latest news on Morgan Stanley is here: which reports that Morgan Stanley is losing a lot of money and is weighing a merger with Wachovia Corp. or several other banks [which ones, who knows?].

Not one word in the entire magazine mentions the financial Volcano about to erupt from beneath the sidewalks of the New Yorker's namesake, identity and hometown.

[Note - the following paragraph refers to an article that was removed by FreeRepublic after the post was published. The article (minus the "Freeper" community comments) was also published here in The Atlantic Monthly ]

Instead, they publish yet another China "bashing/bullying" (New Yorker style) article by Peter Hessler (The Home Team) who, surprise surprise, is yet another journalist publishing on FreeRepublic, a blog so conservative that Jim Jordan, a strategist for independent Democratic groups opposed to Bush, calls it "a bastion of right-wing lunacy". [see Hessler's article on FreeRepublic here. - Note, article removed by FreeRepublic]

With much guile, Hessler criticizes the Chinese for being overly afraid someone was going to hang a political banner up on the Great Wall and photograph it to send the image all over the world, via the Internet, as bad publicity.

That already happened! on facades as historic as Notre Dame (see images) - executed by Reporters Without Borders. They had reason to be afraid it was going to happen again. Can you see why I believe that this issue has been used as a cover-up by the Media for crimes happening in our own backyard?

But why should the New Yorker participate in that?