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Saturday, August 01, 2009
# Posted 12:33 PM by Ariel David Adesnik
The current issue of The New Yorker has a very interesting profile of Michael Savage [registration required]. Although the magazine's profiles of conservatives often degenerate into caricature, this one is surprisingly fair-minded, even affectionate. As for Savage's origins, we find out that in 1978 Michael Alan Weiner earned a degree that sounds like something from a conservative parody of liberal university culture: a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine from the University of California at Berkeley. As Michael A. Weiner, [Savage] built a small empire as a consultant and the author of a string of crunchy advice books: "Plant a Tree"; "Earth Medicine, Earth Food"; "The Art of Feeding Children Well"; "Maximum Immunity".While the article was being researched, Savage challenged the author, Kelefa Sanneh, to be more objective than other liberal journalists: Over the years, Savage has noticed that his disdain for the mainstream media is weidely reciprocated...So when he received an e-mail from a journalist asking for an interview, he was deeply suspicious. He read the e-mail on the air -- he kept the writer anonymous, and didn't mention that the request came from The New Yorker -- and then asked his listeners, "Should I do the interview or not?"...Surprisingly, this approach seems to have paid off. Among the striking passages in Sanneh's profile is this one: The immoderate quotes meticulously catalogued by the liberal media watchdog site mediamatter.org are accurate but misleading, insofar as they reduce a willfully erratic broadcast to a series of political brickbats.Never thought I'd read that in The New Yorker. Cross-posted at Conventional Folly (2) opinions -- Add your opinion
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