帝国使者--托马斯-弗里德曼在工作中

 

贝伦-费尔南德斯

雅各宾杂志的特约编辑。

贝伦-费尔南德斯是《检查站Zipolite》的作者。小地方的检疫》（OR Books, 2021）、《放逐》。Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016) and The Imperial Messenger:托马斯-弗里德曼在工作中》（Verso, 2011）。她是《雅各宾杂志》的特约编辑，并为《纽约时报》、《伦敦书评》博客、《时事》和《中东眼》等众多出版物撰稿。

帝国使者--托马斯-弗里德曼在工作中

贝伦-费尔南德斯

5.0 / 4.0 1条评论

普利策奖得主、《纽约时报》专栏作家和作家托马斯-弗里德曼的作品中，事实错误、仓促的分析和自相矛盾的断言--再加上对混合比喻和指名道姓的偏好--使其与众不同。帝国信使》揭示了这位媒体宠儿的真正价值，这位可笑的作家的成功告诉我们当代新闻业的失败。贝伦-费尔南德斯以机智和新闻智慧剖析了弗里德曼的作品，揭露了新闻编辑室的做法，这些做法有利于大男子主义的修辞而不是严肃的调查，有利于安抚读者而不是授权的读者，有利于还原主义的分析而不是诚信。

帝国信使》是最好的论战书，它对这位美国帝国的辩护人进行了无情的攻击，并对正义的承诺充满激情。

关于该系列。反击》是Verso的一个新系列，旨在恢复由清教徒和平权者开创的论战写作传统。

The Imperial Messenger - Thomas Friedman at Work

Belen Fernandez

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Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions--compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors and name-dropping--distinguish the work of Pulitzer Prize--winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman. The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belén Fernández dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose newsroom practices that favor macho rhetoric over serious inquiry, a pacified readership over an empowered one, and reductionist analysis over integrity.

The Imperial Messenger is polemic at its best, relentless in its attack on this apologist for American empire and passionate in its commitment to justice.

About the series: Counterblasts is a new Verso series that aims to revive the tradition of polemical writinginaugurated by Puritan and leveller...

Belen Fernandez

Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine.

Belen Fernandez is the author of Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.