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New York Times reporter Larry Rohter turned in a factually challenged fact-check of Oliver Stone’s new film South of the Border. So Stone and the film’s co-writers Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali wrote a devastating rebuttal. A reader passed along a link to that piece to Rohter, suggesting that he “should be embarrassed” by his review. […]
It’s not a huge surprise that a correspondent for a newspaper that supported the coup that ousted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would dislike a film that offers a more sympathetic view of Chavez’s politics. That said, Larry Rohter’s review (New York Times, 6/26/10) of the new Oliver Stone film South of the Border still manages […]
Joe Klein, long a writer for New York magazine, was recently hired by Newsweek as a senior editor, where he ponders American culture—like in his recent “Whose Values?” cover story (6/8/92), where he argued that Dan Quayle had a point about Murphy Brown. He has also become a TV regular on racial issues, where he’s […]
