Comments on: Did ‘The Sun’ Have Bad Juju? http://mondoweiss.net/2008/09/inter-religious-federation-on-world-peace.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Logan http://mondoweiss.net/2008/09/inter-religious-federation-on-world-peace.html/comment-page-1#comment-50431 Logan Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/09/30/inter-religious-federation-on-world-peace.html#comment-50431 <p>Clearly it was a mistake to try to be more pro-Israel than the New York Post. Even if it were possible, it was superfluous.</p> <p>The Sun's been called a vanity press. It was intended to give its contributors' work more legitimacy. Most of the people who read those articles did so on the Internet, often at other sites, not in the paper.</p> <p>But as Arthur Carter of the Observer said, "Everything is a vanity press until it makes money." Some of the book reviews were pretty good. The paper probably won't be missed or remembered fondly by many people, though.</p> Clearly it was a mistake to try to be more pro-Israel than the New York Post. Even if it were possible, it was superfluous.

The Sun's been called a vanity press. It was intended to give its contributors' work more legitimacy. Most of the people who read those articles did so on the Internet, often at other sites, not in the paper.

But as Arthur Carter of the Observer said, "Everything is a vanity press until it makes money." Some of the book reviews were pretty good. The paper probably won't be missed or remembered fondly by many people, though.

]]> By: anon http://mondoweiss.net/2008/09/inter-religious-federation-on-world-peace.html/comment-page-1#comment-50432 anon Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/09/30/inter-religious-federation-on-world-peace.html#comment-50432 <p>This is a good day for American journalism (not yet an oxymoron but periously close...).</p> This is a good day for American journalism (not yet an oxymoron but periously close…).

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