Tram Town
Friday, October 22, 2004
| Category: Politics Carol Gould has a story to tell about being an American Jew in London. It is most easily read at the Guardian but that link may go away and so I also offer the original at FrontPageMag. Responses seem to be along the lines of "this only happened in her mind". She does not seem so paranoid that that would be true. The article deserves to be read. Ms Gould is, apparently, a playwright and a documentary film-maker as well as being a journalist but Google only knows about her for this particular article. Investigations continue... a review of a film by someone else emerges... There appears an extensive and reasonably rational discussion of the article on Samizdata.net. Here I found the comment that perhaps Ms Gould had just had a Pauline Kael Moment (PKM). "define: pauline kael moment" reveals little on Google but I found what it means at an "extreme message board": In his book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, Bernard Goldberg recalled, as a glaring example of how the media elite are often out of touch, how after the 1972 election New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was completely baffled about how Richard Nixon could have beaten George McGovern: "Nobody I know voted for Nixon."I had a PKM during lunch on Monday when one of the group said something to the effect "none of us voted for him" referring, of course, to the Man of Steel (or Mean-Spirited Jackass depending on which way you tend to swing). Infact, this happens reasonably often in my experience. I'd always thought of it as "The Great Denial of the Left". Sorry for the rambling, I found the investigation kind of interesting. |
