Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:47:56 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Rev Jones


Gary Dale wrote:

>But the purpose of articles is to revolutionise and polarise debate,
>to (out of the fallout) clarify ideas as to which side of the fence
>you are on.

But the purpose of PR is to distort debate, turn it into a fight between
perfect reason (i.e., your client's position) and perfect unreason (i.e.,
the position held by the client's opponent). I suppose we can talk about
the Unabomber as a social and political phenomenon, or even as a
repellently psychotic version of Kirkpatrick Sale, but he's not really all
that relevant to a serious discussion of science or environmentalism.
What's next? Lorena Bobbitt as feminist?

Doug




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