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Let me recommend another Washington Monthly article, this one titled, “College for $99 a Month: The next generation of online education could be great for students—and catastrophic for universities.” An editor at National Review wondering what kind of stories to buy could do worse than using this piece as a model — in the course of telling an interesting story about an entrepreneur in Online education, it identifies the regulatory barriers that are stymying his ability to innovate, makes a compelling case for how the free market can benefit consumers, and weighs that against Burkean concerns that rapidly change in large societal institutions can exact unexpected costs.
When I argue that right-leaning publications would do well to produce a certain kind of carefully reported, well written narrative journalism, this is exactly the kind of piece I have in mind.
Why wouldn’t leftwing publications do well to produce articles like this?
— The Reticulator · Sep 7, 05:20 AM · #
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The Reticulator,
They would do well to do so — and indeed they do so. The print editions of National Review and The Weekly Standard occasionally do some good narrative journalism, and Reason frequently publishes great stuff, but the left definitely does a lot better job overall producing quality long form journalism.
— Conor Friedersdorf · Sep 7, 06:05 AM · #
Well, OK, the left does produce some quality work that the right cannot. But keep in mind that the left constitutes the ruling class in our society. It has the wealth, power, and resources to do a lot of things that conservatives simply don’t have the resources to do. As underdogs, conservatives have to use guerilla hit-and-run tactics instead of fighting pitched battles on an open field.
When I’m engaged in verbal battles with the internet left, I usually make it a rule not to get involved unless the discussion is going to waste at least twice as much of the lefters’ time as my own.
I’m not sure even that favorable a ratio is a recipe for success. Think of the Native peoples of the 19th century vs the Americans. If they lost one person for every two Americans they took out of action, they still lose.
But I’m willing to fight at a ratio of losing 1 to their 2. It’s better than sitting around and doing nothing to resist the onslaught.
— The Reticulator · Sep 7, 06:29 AM · #
HA HA HA HA!
Oh, right. Those impoverished conservatives. Obviously, since nothing about their agenda has any attraction to moneyed interests. No sir!
— Chet · Sep 7, 06:58 AM · #
As though “moneyed interests” were the trump card in what Reticulator was talking about, or as if liberals don’t attract a parity of moneyed interests of their own.
— Blar · Sep 7, 03:22 PM · #
“When I’m engaged in verbal battles with the internet left, I usually make it a rule not to get involved unless the discussion is going to waste at least twice as much of the lefters’ time as my own.”
So you are a self-confessed troll. Duly noted.
— Mark in Houston · Sep 7, 03:49 PM · #
I didn’t say that they didn’t. But to portray American conservativism as some kind of “guerilla movement” in an age where the media gladly reports on “death panels” as though they’re a real thing proposed in any real legislation is patently absurd. Fox News doesn’t exist; it’s not one of the top-watched news networks in the country? Nobody reads the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal? Rush, Ingram, and Beck don’t command millions of listeners?
This is nothing more than the self-serving conservative mythology of perpetual victimhood. No matter how many conservatives helm the nation’s newspapers, no matter how many conservatives are elected, no matter how many conservative judges are appointed, and no matter how often conservative narratives – even the loony ones – are privileged over the actual facts, conservatives are always the victims. Always whining.
— Chet · Sep 7, 05:21 PM · #
What’s being discussed here is journalism, and in that field, as well as in the media more generally, as well as in the education system, liberals clearly have the advantage in resources over what conservatives have. Liberals are able to run “shops” in the media and in education that are very largely “closed” to conservatives, and that are all but entirely closed to traditionalists and populists as opposed to libertarians. I think that subset of what the Reticulator said simply cannot be denied by anyone serious or scrupulous in their thinking about these things.
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