Subject: Re: NYT Op-Ed Salman Rushdie 271102
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:24:37 +0000





Maldoror,

The funny thing about markets is that if a large number of people want to 
read Communist, revolutionary or other dissident stuff, it will be sold at 
every news stand. You've yourself said that this is dissident literature, 
and like other forms of dissident literature that does not conform to the 
majority's tastes (be it anarchist, right-wing, reactionary, fascist, Hindu 
fundamentalist) it will not displayed prominently. As a vegetarian in China 
I have to walk an extra mile to find a place where I can eat. If all Chinese 
were vegetarians, it would be different. The same goes for news stands and 
revolutionary literature. Rather than complaining about the news stand or 
the media's unwillingness to display dissident stuff more prominently, we 
should ask why is it that this kind of a message is not more widely popular. 
I write for some of the "small" publications, and sure, I'd like those 
publications to be displayed as prominently as some of the bigger ones I 
write for. But I don't believe it is fair to blame the news vendor.....

Salil



>From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: NYT Op-Ed Salman Rushdie 271102
>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:24:04 -0800 (PST)
>
>
> > well the good guys, both Little and Big and Small
> > also work
> > the same way, and therein
> > lies the Problem.
> > It s a duality business.
>
>do you ever have anything useful to say or contribute
>other than your usual discombobulated rambling?
>
>if the 'good guys' as you call them worked in the same
>way why are there no dissident magazines on newsstands
>right next to the new york times? if i want dissident
>literature why do i have to go to 'revolution books'
>off the beaten path here in new york to get them? i
>would hope one could find them in colombia bookstores
>or nyu but it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't.
>
>if the 'good guys' worked in the same way there would
>be more points of view out there for the masses to
>consume other than that of the state media. where are
>the anarchist magazines? the communist magazines? the
>socialist magazines? the answer is in little
>independent bookstores tucked away virtually out of
>sight, keeping the dissident views to a mere whisper.
>
>and if you're going to respond do it in a concise way
>instead of just babbling.
>
>gr3g
>
>====>
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>
>
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