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Great news for my colleague and friend Tony Wright:
Rescued Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell have signed a deal for an authorised account of their underground ordeal.
The book will be written by The Bulletin’s national affairs editor Tony Wright, who covered the two-week rescue operation and has since spent time with both miners.
This is even better news for anyone wanting to read an accurate and lyrical account of the rescue. The book will be a best-seller. And Peter FitzSimons’ oafish paws are nowhere near it.
UPDATE. John Pilger has additional publishing news:
I can think of few books about Israel and Palestine, written by an Australian, as important as Antony Loewenstein’s brave j’accuse. In challenging the propagandists to give up their addiction, he is a truth-teller bar none.
LOL! And also, ROFL!
debi, it sounds like a distasteful medical condition to me.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 06 08 at 10:21 AM • permalinkJust curious to see how many pages you can get out of “Yep. Still dark.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 10:29 AM • permalinkI didn’t bother hitting the Pigler* link, but does the “mup” in the Uni of Melbourne URL stand for “Melbourne Ummah Patisans”?
*Well, that’s how it was spelled on a Canadian 24-hr news channel’s news crawl when John Pigler won an award a few years ago.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 08 at 10:30 AM • permalinkFrom the review: “On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and international criticism over its military aggression, Israel asserts the right of the Jewish state to exist in Palestine. On the other, the Palestinian people struggle, some peacefully, some violently, for survival (emphasis added). “
They struggle for survival. “Amidst the terrorism carried out by their own fanatics” seems to have been left out. And, “within the context of the incredibly corrupt Palestinian Authority” might have been added for clarification.
Antony Loewenstein’s brave j’accuse.
Interesting word choice. That word always brings this to my mind, with its opening words:
For several years, with growing surprise and disgust, I have been following the campaign that people in France are trying to mount against the Jews...
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 06 08 at 11:27 AM • permalinkThe book will be written by The Bulletin’s national affairs editor Tony Wright, who covered the two-week rescue operation and has since spent time with both miners.
This is even better news for anyone wanting to read an accurate and lyrical account of the rescue. The book will be a best-seller. And Peter FitzSimons’ oafish paws are nowhere near it.Tim, your problem is you can’t bear to give credit where credit’s due. For the record, FitzSimons did say a black duck would not be writing the book. And I think I’m right in guessing that Tony Wright is not a black duck. So he was absolutely correct in that premonition.
Eery. How did he know?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 08 at 12:04 PM • permalinkWhen the greats (Pilger, Fisk, Chomsky, etc) finally pass from the scene, who-oh-who will take their places??
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 08 at 12:34 PM • permalinkI can think of few books about Israel and Palestine, written by an Australian, as important as Antony Loewenstein’s brave j’accuse. In challenging the propagandists to give up their addiction, he is a truth-teller bar none.
I can think of few articles about an Australian who has written on Israel and Palestine, bunged down by an Australian who has moved to England, as dumbfoundingly obtuse as John Pilger’s knee-jerk je t’aime to Antony Loewenstein. In passing out more spiked Kool-Aid to the imbeciliariat, he is truly a bartender without peer.
Man, this “world-renowned journalist” stuff is a milk run. Nothin’ to it.
#18, Paco: imbeciliariat
Excellent. That’s going into my memory banks.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 06 08 at 02:36 PM • permalinkHey, if Lenin can be a Jew, Flavius Antonius can be a Jew.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 08 at 08:39 PM • permalinkI can think of few flower-themed songs performed by ukelele artistes of mixed Jewish and Lebanese parentage more important than Tiny Tim’s “Tiptoe through the Tulips”.
Admittedly - I don’t know that much about popular music.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 06 08 at 09:13 PM • permalinkNot just ROFL, ROFLMAO.
But Pilger’s comment nags at me… according to him, A-Lo is a truth teller in challenging propagandists to give up their addiction…
How exactly does that work?
A-LO: Hey, you propagandists, give up your addiction!
PILGER, PASSING BY: And ain’t that the truth!
But what A-Lo has said isn’t a statement and thus verifiable or falsifiable--it’s a challenge. An exhortation.True or false: Fido, sit down.
True or false: Come on the Blues!
True or false: Waiter, bring me the check.Also, is Pilger saying that;’s the ONLY time Ant is a truth teller?
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 06 09 at 03:26 AM • permalink
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Oh, how I do regret not having the opportunity to read Peter’s Chock-Full-O-Snark version!
Congrats to Tony.