tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post909586417970713183..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: "Unpublishables"?King Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-4383019278765684842012-08-20T08:39:19.649-07:002012-08-20T08:39:19.649-07:00It's no surprise that I've heard not a pee...It's no surprise that I've heard not a peep from Mr. Hallberg.<br />Yet his statemnent is, at best, casually malicious. It might be a species of libel.<br />After all, the New York Times is the most powerful newspaper on the planet. It's read by nearly everyone in the book biz. <br />Garth Hallberg offered opinion as fact. He painted every one of the ULA's members as "unpublishable," with a broad brush. (Carrying on Bissell's own slur.) Once labeled as that, in such a venue, the label becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.<br />****************<br />Part of the problem is that, because ULAers came from a very different sector of American society as those who man elite positions in publishing and media-- who overwhelmingly come from the higher reaches of American society-- we and our different voices and styles of writing, nonconformist and unfamilar, were looked at with absolute scorn. King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.com