Oh, no! Bob Somerby Considering Ditching The Daily Howler!

[BurtWorm]

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101003.shtml


SABBATICAL: Note the cranky tone of this piece? We’re totally sick of our cranky tone too! For that reason, we’re planning to take a significant break, from which we may not even return! (To quote Arnold Schwarzenegger: “Yes, it’s true…”) But before we break, we plan to spend four days next week on a recent book review—a remarkable review which brings us full circle, back to the topics which helped launch THE HOWLER. Yes, we refer to Larry McMurtry’s bizarre review in the current New York Review of Books. How dysfunctional is American discourse? The fact that McMurtry’s review ever went into print ought to puzzle every American. What could have gone through the minds of his editors? Frankly, we’re puzzled by that question too. But McMurtry’s review really does say it all; we plan to assess it, then break. We’ll name his editors, and then we’ll say this: When your discourse is run by such empty elites, there’s really no point in dissent.



<note: this was from a couple of weeks ago. He brings this subject again today. The last two weeks of the Holwer have been mercilessly depressing about the state of American journalism. Hard not to see exactly what Somerby means.>

[tom_paine]

1. Bad news.

bummer

:-(

[Friar]

2. I emailed him weeks ago about this

and castigated him. Yes! I did. I told him how much we, True Americans™ all, needed him. I think he changed his mind. We all get frustrated and depressed by the current state of affairs in the world, but it passes.

[BurtWorm]

3. You "think" he changed his mind?

That doesn't sound positive to me. True, he did bring this up again--that he had the idea to throw it all over--today without saying he actually would do that. But I'm nervous. I stopped carefully reading MWO every day. I keep forgetting about American Politics Journal, Bush Watch, and Online Journal, all of which I used to read religiously and return to several times a day, hungry for more from them all. But I still haven't kicked my Howler habit. It would kill me to see it go dark.