Steve Wasserman on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/steve_wasserman Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2010 2010-05-21T07:00:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Steve Wasserman on the Scourge of Czarist Russia http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/steve_wasserman_on_the_scourge_of_czarist_russia_20100521/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/steve_wasserman_on_the_scourge_of_czarist_russia_20100521/ book, lesley blanch, review, steve wasserman, the sabres of paradise, Book Review book cover

Lesley Blanch’s “The Sabres of Paradise” tells the illuminating story of Shamyl, the Imam of Daghestan, whose 25-year fight against the Russian empire left a half-million dead, and lessons still to be learned in wars from Chechnya to Afghanistan.

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Will publishers and booksellers, writers and readers be able to survive and thrive in the Digital Era now engulfing us all?

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]]> 2010-03-05T08:00:00+00:00 Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080410_steve_wasserman_on_fidel_castro/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080410_steve_wasserman_on_fidel_castro/ book, castro, cuba, democracy, government, history, military, politics, religion, review, war, wasserman, Book Review What will history say about the implacable anti-imperialist and unrepentant revolutionary who has held power in Cuba for nearly 50 years? The publication of Fidel Castro’s and Ignacio Ramonet’s “My Life: A Spoken Autobiography” helps us understand the man and his myth.

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]]> 2008-04-11T05:45:00+00:00 Truth or Consequences http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080303_truth_or_consequences/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080303_truth_or_consequences/ bloods, critic, drugs, fake memoir, frey, los angeles, love and consequences, margaret b. jones, margaret seltzer, memoir, new york times, south central, wasserman, In the News

We got snookered. Motoko Rich of The New York Times reports in her article posted March 4 that the just-published “memoir” by Margaret B. Jones, called “Love and Consequences,” about Jones’ “life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods,” is a fabrication.

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]]> 2008-03-04T06:12:00+00:00 Goodbye to All That http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070907_goodbye_to_all_that/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070907_goodbye_to_all_that/ arts, book review, cjr, culture, literature, newspaper, publishing, wasserman, Although coverage of books in major newspapers may seem to have taken a precipitous downturn in recent months, this decline has been in the works for a while, says longtime writer, literary editor and book aficionado Steve Wasserman, who opines in this CJR article about the high costs of this lamentable cultural sea change.

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A former Los Angeles Times editor fleshes out the motivations behind the unceremonious Nov. 7 forced resignation of the Times’ respected editor, Dean Baquet, above.

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]]> 2006-11-08T08:05:00+00:00 Chicago Agonistes: The Plight of the L.A. Times http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_death_of_newspapers/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_death_of_newspapers/ advances, blogosphere, circulation, demise, future, internet, journalistic, newspapers, technological, tribune, Under pressure from its Tribune Co. overseers, the paper will struggle to protect the journalistic excellence it took years to build.

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