New Yorker fact-checkers, where are you? In the big lead story
in this week’s issue, Jon Lee Anderson’s profile of Venezuelan president
Hugo Chavez, we find this:
World Bank or International Monetary Fund austerity
packages in return for debt renegotiation are central to neoliberal
programs.
I really don’t have the inclination right now to go into the multitude
of ways in which this is incorrect. But anybody with any knowledge
of the subject would have told any fact-checker that there’s no way
that sentence should ever appear in a news magazine.
Vanity Fair runs its annual boring listing of the "50
leaders of the information age" (in fact, there are 64). The
list includes five women (Meg Whitman, Marjorie Scardino, Oprah Winfrey,
Martha Stewart, and Paramount’s Sherry Lansing) and three non-whites
(Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Yang, and Sony’s Nobuyuki Idei). Everyone else
is a middle-aged white guy. At least we don’t need to see another
of Annie Liebowitz’s equally boring photos of them all lined up at
Sun Valley.
congratulations for those who are in the list for the leaders of the information age. the only person i know is oprah winfrey. I might as well try to search other names too. lol. elena from mixeur batteur