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Mickey Z
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Monday, April 24, 2006
15 Minutes of Radical Fame
Last week, I posed a question about radicals like William Blum and Ward Churchill appearing on corporate media TV shows. This question has evolved into an article...and here’s an excerpt:
Does/can mainstream exposure to progressive ideas really make a difference?
“How can we tell?” was Howard Zinn’s response. “Most actions/events, if they make a difference, make it imperceptibly, and it’s only the accumulation of small differences that may occasionally reach a critical point and be identifiable as having been effective.”
Joe Bageant, author of the upcoming, Drink, Pray, Fight, ####: Dispatches from America’s Class War, sees things differently. “Jesus Christ fella,” he told me, “I love ya, but don’t you see that both of those people are completely unheard of by the majority of Americans? Ninety-nine percent of Americans never heard of either on one of them. You gotta be an internet political freak to know who they are. The short version is that until Ward is on Oprah nobody will care except those who make so much political mileage from him, both left and right in the newspapers, which, if you will remember, the average family out here no longer gets or reads. The rest of America is mowing their yards because it is spring.”
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