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"The only American newspapers that do not leave me in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut off from my brain, very probably by an Associated Press wire …," she begins in an essay that goes on to criticize traditional news outlets, including the wire service carrying this review, for pretending that there is such a thing as neutral, unbiased, objective reporting. That article, "Alicia and the Underground Press," was a snarky ode to alternative newspapers in the 1960s like the East Village Other and Berkeley Barb that might have been "amateurish and badly wr...

Smoking cigarettes. apparently the joints were red, white and blue that day in honor of the holiday. the smoke in had been been advertised in the underground press. by mid-afternoon more than 1,000 had gathered, some bathed nude. later some turned over the trucks and the spotlights into the reflecting pool. like i said, you don't really get news copy like that anymore, no matter the occasion. but the naked hippies, the pitched violent battles, the clouds of tear gas, the cops on horseback running people into the reflecting pool, the bloodied noses, the injured officers, the big trucks with spo...

Revolution. is that unique? is that unusual? >> it's very surprising -- it is actually very extraordinary. because usually revolutions do get prepared by underground press or something of that kind. so there are people who put themselves forward as the collapse of the incompetent and the evil. and often there are particular political prisoners. the figure of muhammad elbaradei, this slightly, if you'll forgive the phrase, professorial figure emerging is very unlikely, precisely because of the fact that he has international recognition. that's not a good thing. you want someone from the kind of...