Comments on: Belga http://koreanish.com/2009/04/30/belga/ Alexander Chee Fri, 25 May 2012 04:01:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: angelle http://koreanish.com/2009/04/30/belga/#comment-1892 Thu, 07 May 2009 10:21:06 +0000 http://koreanish.com/?p=1183#comment-1892 whoa. so my feeder stopped feeding me your posts. i was wondering what happened.

news is terrible yet fascinating. it’s impossible at times not to be sucked in, despite the knowledge that the media is never “objective” the way good journalism is “supposed to be”. it’s hard to stop.

when i’m abroad i realize how much better cnn international is than the cnn we get at home. i come home and wish somehow they would offer it as a special separate channel. you know, just one little offering since they’re already offering us 5 different types of mtvs and 4 spin-offs of discovery.

]]> By: Lenore http://koreanish.com/2009/04/30/belga/#comment-1884 Mon, 04 May 2009 02:23:29 +0000 http://koreanish.com/?p=1183#comment-1884 At a certain point in October, I think I followed your agent’s advice. Being in Europe made me feel extra powerless to change things, for some reason. My compulsive nytimes.com tics started to wane.

]]> By: Jane Kokernak http://koreanish.com/2009/04/30/belga/#comment-1883 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:58:18 +0000 http://koreanish.com/?p=1183#comment-1883 I am so glad that you made this observation about the press coverage of Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni, and Hillary Clinton’s clothes and tied it to the Levi-Strauss quote. (Even the New Yorker published a short, admiring piece on the “meaning” of Michelle Obama’s arms!) I’ve tried to say, in the company of intelligent people, that I am tired of the celebritizing of the Obamas — to me, we should be observing the seriousness of their qualities, ethos, etc. This, apparently, makes me “no fun.”

Thank you for noticing this, for saying something.

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