[IP] Re: Ordinary People labelled as terrorists

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: jm4fral4@att.net
Date: March 28, 2007 10:01:42 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: To Dave Farber Re: Ordinary People labelled as terrorists

Dear Dave:
     Reminded by this that Andre Schiffrin, founder of the not-for- 
profit The New Press, is out with new book, A Political Education:  
Coming of Age in Paris and NY, in part about how the cold war and  
McCarthy shaped the the nation and  publishing industry (in the  
direction of consolidation and largely current conglomerate  
ownership). In a radio interview this morning (last qtr of hr on  
democracynow.org), he mentions that Harvard and Yale had fulltime FBI  
offices in the early 50s...

     Schiffrin, when told to cut 2/3 of his Pantheon list 15 years  
ago, because the quality was too high and the politics too leftwing  
(Chomsky, Studs Terkle - himself [ST] previously forced off the air  
when he had Chicago radio show with Marian Anderson - et al.), he  
[Schiffrin] left Pantheon/RCA (new owner Si Newhouse) and founded  
TNP, and all but 2 of his 100s of authors went with him and the whole  
editorial staff (6 in all) to start The New Press, now celebrating  
15th solvent anniversary.

Best, Jacqueline Fralley

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