Re: UKNM: RIP The Street.co.uk

[Ashley Pomeroy]

>>>>But it does follow the standard pattern of US invasions of foreign

territory.<<<<


The absolute classic piece of writing on this subject concerns the late,

unlamented UK edition of Wired magazine, from Dan O'Brien:


http://www.spesh.com/danny/wireduk/index.html


It should be required reading for all people all over the world

everywhere.


"After that, it got nasty. They were utterly mad times. The offices got 

burgled, and Tara was held at knifepoint, alone in the building. I stayed 

up with her, and had to explain to Louis that Brits were now trying to

kill 

his staff. A mad guy someone had commissioned to do something on Burma or 

Indonesia or somewhere came into the office and ranted that people were 

tracing his modem. I walked him outside, and he showed me the parked cars 

that were following him. Wired US launched a law suit against the

Guardian, 

and thus tried to stop production of its own magazine. Robin Hunt, 

chain-smoking and as paranoid of Wired US as the mad guy was of the CIA, 

practically wrote an issue on his own (that's the famous 'missing

issue'). "



-

"In the land of the blind, the blindest man is king"

Ashley Pomeroy -

arpslab [dot] org

 - http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/


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