{"article":{"id":6858,"heading":"All The News That Fits: Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart [Part 3]","author":"Paul H. Rosenberg","created":"2001-05-19 11:23:29","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><table cellpadding=\"5\">\r\n   <tr bg>\r\n      <td width=\"530\">\r\n         <table cols=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n            <tr>\r\n               <td bg>\r\n                  <b><i>The Strawman's Revenge<\/i><\/b><b><i> - <\/i><\/b>\r\n                  <b><i>IMC's E-zine Of Media Analysis<\/i><\/b>\r\n               <\/td>\r\n            <\/tr>\r\n         <\/table>\r\n      <\/td>\r\n   <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<table cellspace=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\r\n   <tr bg>\r\n      <td width=\"530\">\r\n         <b>  \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n         <table cols=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\">\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <tr bg>\r\n               <td>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n                  <b>All The Facts That Fit <\/b><br>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n                  <b>Columns By Two NY Times Pundits Picked Apart\r\n<\/b><br>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i><b>By Paul Rosenberg,<\/b> IMC-LA reporter.<\/i>\r\n\r\n\r\n               <\/td>\r\n            <\/tr>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <tr>\r\n               <td>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n                  <table cellspace=\"5\" cellpadding=\"6\">\r\n                     <tr>\r\n                        <td width=\"10\" bg>&nbsp;<\/td>\r\n                        <td bg>\r\n                           <b>Coinciding with the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Quebec, two NY Times columnists lambasted the demonstrators as enemies of the poor, ignoring several decades of Third World resistance and IMF riots in response to cruel and deadly neoliberal policies.   Part One of this article recalled some of that lost history, while Part Two criticized other elements of Tom Friedman's column.  Part Three criticizes Paul Krugman's column, with particular emphasis on challenging his claim that suffering under neoliberal capitalism can't be helped and is only made worse by the efforts of protesters who allegedly \"have no heads.\" Frederick Douglass might disagree.\r\n                           <\/b>\r\n                           \r\n                           \r\n                        <\/td>\r\n                     <\/tr>\r\n                  <\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n               <\/td>\r\n            <\/tr>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <tr bg>\r\n               <td>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n                  <b>Part Three: Krugman's Schizophrenia.\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ \r\n<b>\r\nPart One <\/b> ]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ <b>Part Two<\/b> ]<\/b>\r\n                  \r\n               <\/td>\r\n            <\/tr>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n         <\/table>\r\n      <\/b><\/td>\r\n   <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<table width=\"530\" cellspace=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\r\n   <tr bg>\r\n      <td>\r\n\r\n         <table>\r\n            <tr bg>\r\n\r\n                      <td width=\"210\" bg align=\"right\" valign=\"top\">\r\n\r\n                         <table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\" align=\"left\">\r\n                            <tr>\r\n                               <td width=\"170\">\r\n                                  <b>\r\n                                     \r\n                                  <\/b>\r\n                               <\/td>\r\n                            <\/tr>\r\n                         <\/table>\r\n\r\n                      <\/td>\r\n\r\n\r\n               <td>\r\n\r\n<b><br>\r\n                         \r\n\r\n                           \r\n                         \r\n\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<b>  \r\n<b>The Straw Man Argument<\/b><\/b><\/b><p>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Friedman is just a glorified hack.  But Paul Krugman is a real economist.  Not only that, he's a sharp critic of much that's wrong with economic thinking when it comes to domestic matters.  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