Many of you emailed me about the recent report "Meet The Wealth Gap" by Gabriel Thompson on The Nation. Ok, so you disagree. That's ok. But I want to defend my favorite paper. I love The Nation and have been reading it for a few years now. I don't think I can live well without it. So what if the Top dogs and Underdogs brush shoulders in Midtown Manhattan or the unbelievably wealthy, mega-rich, brie and chardonnay crowd in San Francisco as reported. But The Nation is not to be blame. And nobody owns the paper. Not GE. Not Disney. Not Oprah. Not Murdoch (for the love of God, hope not) or Time Warner. The Nation is a wholly owned subsidiary of everyone's conscience. This independence is why writers at The Nation have always used it as an Early Warning System -- to expose before it's too late the frauds, felonies and follies of the all-too-private enterprise we call Our Government. And it's why week in, week out The Nation is read by an audience as illustrious as its authors.
If you believe, as we do (the readers), that the highest form of patriotism is demanding to know exactly what Government's doing in your name, read our Nation today and see how the brilliant minds use it everyday to tell stories to you and me, near or far - every week. As for the people working at The Nation, legally speaking, of course, everything has an owner, but as a Nation editor once wrote, "it is one of the superb facts about The Nation that you can no more 'own' it than you can own the spirit it represents"
If you believe, as we do (the readers), that the highest form of patriotism is demanding to know exactly what Government's doing in your name, read our Nation today and see how the brilliant minds use it everyday to tell stories to you and me, near or far - every week. As for the people working at The Nation, legally speaking, of course, everything has an owner, but as a Nation editor once wrote, "it is one of the superb facts about The Nation that you can no more 'own' it than you can own the spirit it represents"