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A Matter of Opinion by Victor Navasky New Press £16.95
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21/11/05: Victor Navasky became editor of The Nation magazine in 1978 and its publisher in 1995. He draws on this experience, and before that on the New York Times magazine, to create a well-written, wonderful book, packed full of insights and anecdotes about politics, publishing and the difficulties of sustaining The Nation magazine.
Navasky’s comments on journals of opinion, for example, present a lucid overview of their history and importance (including an informal interview with Jurgen Habermas).
The book is international in its scope. Navasky was involved in a brave attempt to set up InterNation, a worldwide network of progressive investigative journalists who would collaborate with each other. ‘The process of putting the network together,’ he writes, ‘had its own rewards.’ He mentions how, in Thailand, a United States Information Agency office organised a breakfast in Bangkok for sixteen English-speaking Thai journalists. The officer showed Navasky ‘a thick mimeographed dossier that included the name of every significant journalist in Thailand (including Americans and Europeans), with a paragraph or two on each’ containing political profiles, reliability of reporting, whether he/she could be trusted, and so on. Navasky muses, ‘I hadn’t realised that American diplomats kept track of the press so systematically.’
A fascinating book, highly recommended.
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