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...without the income generated by big name acts, how will record labels support and promote lesser-known artists? "If we keep moving down this particular route, companies will only release records that are sure home runs," says Martin Talbot, editor of industry paper Music Week. "That means either stuff by established artists or unknown artists doing cover versions. There is the danger that it will no longer be worth it for companies to invest in new, up-and-coming artists. And if record companies don't invest in them, who will...
Dale C. Stapleton, GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. David Talbot's paean to J.F.K. excessivelly praised someone whose legend is almost totally due to his having been assassinated before his many shortcomings and follies could become more apparent. Academic and journalist sycophants will stop their fawning and face up to the deficiencies of J.F.K.'s presidency only when the Kennedys' wealth and power have waned...
...David Talbot's lead story argues that Kennedy was less a cold warrior than a warrior for peace, that he was a man who despised war and sought above all to avoid nuclear conflict. The Kennedy who emerges is a wily pragmatist who had certain moral limits that he would not compromise. In November 1961, Kennedy gave a speech in which he said that there was nothing "soft" about averting nuclear war and that America showed its true strength when it avoided using military force...
...same day I was reading Ann Coulter's book, I read Margaret Talbot's excellent New Yorker piece from last week on Oriana Fallaci, the Coulteresque Italian journalist who has written that the "art of invading and conquering and subjugating" is "the only art which the sons of Allah have always excelled." Fallaci has said that Muslims "breed like rats," and she has complained that Muslims have left "yellow streaks of urine that profaned the millenary marbles of the Baptistery" in Florence. As it happens, it's illegal in much of Europe to say such outlandish things: Fallaci currently faces...
...Talbot quotes French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut objecting to some of Fallaci's extreme rhetoric. But he also commends her for taking "'the discourse and the actions of our adversaries' at their word and - in the wake of September 11th, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan, and other atrocities committed in the name of Islam - not being intimidated by the 'penitential narcissism that makes the West guilty of even that which victimizes it.'" Talbot herself concludes that Fallaci's "ferocious courage, and the willingness to say anything... can amount to a life force...