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...pick columnists across a broad spectrum of views. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal, with the most rigidly polemical editorial page of any major paper, seeks to vary its Johnny-one-note tone by using some outside voices. Irving Kristol and Arthur Schlesinger are well-matched middleweights, but was Alexander Cockburn craftily picked for his left-wing pyrotechnics or as valid spokesman for a point of view...
...centerpiece of a new daily arts and leisure page. The political writing of Washington Bureau Chief Albert Hunt is elegant and informed, and it inspires the same in his 35-member bureau. The paper opens its Op-Ed columns to liberals and gadflies such as Hodding Carter and Alexander Cockburn. As a result, the Journal has won a following even among its ideological opposites. This month a cover story in the partisanly Democratic New Republic praised the Journal as "the definitive newspaper of political economy...
...sheer size of the Soviet colossus. Indeed, a number of skeptics within the Western military Establishment have long believed that NATO and U.S. assessments of the Soviet machine represent "threat inflation," the deliberate overstatement of Soviet might in order to win larger budgets for weapons programs. Says Andrew Cockburn, author of The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine: "It may be that the military on either side is engaged not so much in an arms race as in simply doing what it wants for its own institutional reasons. The other side is relevant only in that it serves...
...Murdoch's journalistic philosophy also shows positive signs. He allows his publications a certain freedom--Alexander Cockburn, the media critic for Murdoch's Village Voice, often directs his jibes at Murdoch's Post. Moreover, perhaps due to Murdoch's concern with success, he does not level all his publications to the same bleak plain. If the New York Post often runs trash, then New York offers "classy trash"--to use writer Richard Reeve's description of the magazine's content. Yet Reeves offered that appraisal before Murdoch owned New York. And only a cursory examination of recent New York stories...
...matter how much Alexander Cockburn in the Village Voice and others like him believe in the absolute corruptability of our government, they still cannot by any stretch of the imagination twist evidence into a condemnation of this country's role in the affair...