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Mussolini, which affected his severe depression, he hid his Pietro Spina, a communist who observes that for Silone the than—communism is false.
future in two important ways. increasing alienation from the returns to his native region to distinguishing quality of fascism Both, in their modern form,
First, he was obliged to spend a Communist Party by moving to a judge the prospects for was not that it pitted one class arose from the ashes of World
great deal of time traveling clinic in Davos, Switzerland; but revolution. Spina is a much more against another (which it War I at approximately the same
abroad in Spain, Germany, in the summer of 1931 he was self-conscious and intellectual undoubtedly did), nor that it time. But Silone was not yet
France, and the Soviet Union on expelled from the party anyway hero than Viola. The hero of perpetuated inequality (ditto), prepared to equate the two, and
party work, an uncomfortable for his failure to support the Fontamara had still embodied the but that it mobilized and he could never quite bring
arrangement for a patriot as party line. revolutionary zeal of Silone’s marshaled “all the relics of himself to do so. One of the
attached to the soil as he was. It was during his illness and youth, but the hero of Bread and primitive barbarism that still charges he was to level against
Second, he had to master the art convalescence in Switzerland Wine ends up disillusioned and survive in modern man,” Koestler and likeminded anti-
of secrecy, taking on a baffling that, without any formal disgusted with the party that transferring to the political arena communists was that they were
and ever-changing array of party experience in fiction, Silone inspired him. “many pre-logical and a-logical too inclined to use the same
aliases— over a dozen, wrote his first and most famous Pugliese notes that Bread and relics of a primitive mentality” methods as their opponents to
according to Pugliese— novel, Fontamara, a work of Wine is considered by many to lurking beneath the “varnish” of achieve their goals. The
including the one that later stuck, polemical social realism that be Silone’s finest novel. It is civilization. The fascists had also equivalent charge against Silone
Ignazio Silone, which he adopted bore witness to his homesickness more discursive than Fontamara, been successful, according to (and many other ex-communist
in 1923 while languishing in a for his beloved Abruzzo and the but also a more mature work of Silone, in “contaminating many intellectuals) has to be that they
Spanish jail. peasant community that he had ideas—a reflection in fiction on of [their] political opponents” by hid behind their hatred for
Secrecy became a passion for left behind. Its hero, he later said, the dilemma of ends and means forcing them to struggle against fascism and soft-pedaled their
Silone, along with its necessary was not so much an individual as that tortured so many fascism with fascist methods, criticisms of communism.
corollary, the ability to keep “the rural proletariat, the intellectuals in the twentieth thereby becoming “barbarians Silone’s was a particularly
silent. This was evident in a eternally suffering peasants,” century. A third novel, The Seed themselves. Red barbarians.” complex and ambiguous and
turning point in his career during although the novel tells their Beneath the Snow, completed in There can be little doubt that tortured case. During World War
a visit to Moscow in 1927. Both story through the rebellion of a 1940, constitutes the last in what Silone had put his finger on one II, for example, after he had
he and Palmiro Togliatti, who single peasant, Barbera Viola, Silone considered a trilogy. It of the prime reasons why rejoined the Italian Socialist
were together leading an Italian against the new fascist regime continues the tale of Spina, who fascism flourished in so much of Party and become chief of its
delegation to a meeting of the and his transformation into a goes willingly to his death at the “civilized” Europe—it expressed foreign office in exile, he was
Communist International, fledgling revolutionary. Viola is hands of the fascists for the sake an almost irresistible atavism, contacted by Allen Dulles of the
refused to sign a resolution ultimately arrested, tortured, and of personal loyalty to his former which was why it remained the American Office of Strategic
expelling Leon Trotsky from the brought to his death in a fascist comrades. chief ideological and political Services (the OSS was the
party without being allowed to jail—an emblem of the fate of Pugliese is not terribly interested enemy for Silone even after his predecessor of the CIA), and
read the document that the cafoni under fascism. in Silone’s fiction. He pays only break with communism (for became a conduit for passing
supposedly incriminated him. Fontamara appeared first in cursory attention to the novels, Koestler it was the other way money and information between
Trotsky was expelled anyway by German in 1933, and was dwelling more on their subject around). Silone evidently feared the Americans and members of
a resolution that was claimed to quickly translated into twenty- matter than on their literary fascism’s pull precisely because the Italian resistance, and for
be “unanimous.” Togliatti made seven languages, turning its qualities. What really interests of its great appeal to “the keeping an eye on the
his peace with the Soviet leaders, author into an international him is Silone’s politics. Among masses,” who were dangerously communists in the resistance.
and later became the head of the celebrity. But the novel could not Silone’s writings, he seems to vulnerable to unreason and This prompted the adoption of
Italian Communist Party, but be published in Silone’s native prefer The School for Dictators, brutality. But while the argument more aliases, and Silone was so
Silone kept silent, while Italy, because of his communist a non-fictional satirical that fascism had “contaminated” successful at concealing his true
gradually becoming alienated and anti-fascist reputation. He monograph couched in dialogue, its opponents may have some position that he wound up in a
from his comrades. At the end of soon followed it with another and written shortly before The truth to it, the implication that Swiss jail on suspicion that he
the 1920s, having contracted novel set in the Abruzzo, Bread Seed Beneath the Snow, to the fascism somehow pre-
tuberculosis and fallen into a and Wine. It told the story of novel that followed it. He dated—and was more innocent SAINT page 33
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Sullivan recently posted on his views, I do not see that his Washington. Sullivan might have about America’s foreign policy, amounts to a fifth column.” A
blog. “Most American Jews, of motives are despicable. a look at the domestic and America’s wars, and fifth column! It is a genuinely
course, retain a respect for Moreover, Krauthammer argues pressures–in lobbies and other America’s role in the world–that sinister sentence. I wish to
learning, compassion for the for his views; the premises of his forms–upon American it is all the result of the emphasize two features of
other, and support for minorities analysis are coldly clear, and diplomacy toward China, Saudi clandestine and cunningly Sullivan’s comment. The first is
(Jews, for example, are the may be engaged analytically, and Arabia, Turkey, and Cuba, and organized power of a single and that it is an exercise in
ethnic group most sympathetic to when necessary refuted. Unlike give a thought or two to the small ethnic group–has a demonization: it divides the
gay rights),” he declared on Sullivan, he does not present elaborate and sometimes provenance that should disgust American people into good
January 13. “But the Goldfarb- feelings as ideas. Most exasperating nature of foreign- all thinking people. Americans and bad Americans.
Krauthammer wing–that important, the grounds of policy-making in a democracy; And this is not all that is The second is that it is in no way
celebrates and believes in Krauthammer’s opinions are no but he prefers not to dive deep disgusting about Sullivan’s an expression of Sullivan’s
government torture, endorses the more to be found in, or reduced into the substance of anything. It approach. His assumption, in his homosexuality. It must never be
pulverization of Gazans with to, his Jewishness than the is less immediately satisfying outburst about “the Goldfarb- said that when Sullivan lauded
glee, and wants to attack Iran–is grounds of the contrary than cursing and linking. Does Krauthammer wing,” that every the bellicosity of Cheney and
something else. Something much opinions–the contentions of Sullivan think that Obama’s thought that a Jew thinks is a Rumsfeld–which wing of
darker.” Michael Goldfarb is the dovish Jews who denounce engagement with Iran–which, Jewish thought is an anti-Semitic American Christianity, by the
former online editor of The torture, and oppose Israeli abuses accurately described, is an assumption, and a rather classical way, shall we blame for them?
Weekly Standard, about whom in the Gaza war, and insist upon engagement with the Iranian one. Bigotry has always made –he exchanged the company of
the less said, the better. Charles a diplomatic solution to the dictatorship and not with the representatives of individuals, the good gays for the company
Krauthammer is Charles threat of an Iranian nuclear Iranian people–is paying off? and discerned the voice of the of the bad gays. To say that
Krauthammer. I was not aware capability–are to be found in, or Does he believe that the Israeli group in the voice of every one would be homophobic. Here is
that they comprise a “wing” of reduced to, their Jewishness. All war against Hamas was an unjust of its members. Is everything what such homophobia would
American Jewry, or that these “wings” are fervent Jews war, or that Israel should have that every gay man says a gay look like: Most American
American Jewry has “wings.” and friends of Israel. There are continued to absorb Hamas’s statement? I will give an homosexuals, of course, retain a
What sets them apart from their many “Jewish” answers to these rocket attacks–which were example. On October 15, 2001, respect for art, and compassion
more enlightened brethren is the questions. We all want the Torah indisputably criminal–and not when the ruins of the World for the other, and support for
unacceptability of their politics on our side. And the truth is that acted with force against them? Trade Center still smoldered, minorities. But the Sullivan-
to Sullivan. That is his criterion the Torah has almost nothing to His answers may be inferred Sullivan published a piece in the Shmullivan wing of American
for dividing the American Jewish do with it. from his various Times of London called “A homosexuality–that celebrates
community into good Jews and Sullivan is hunting for motives, ejaculations–“the pulverization British View of the US Post- and believes in torture and war,
bad Jews–a practice with a not reasons; for conspiracies, of Gazans,” for example, is a September 11.” In this piece he and endorses the pulverization of
sordid history. which is the surest sign of a phrase that is calculatedly accused Bill Clinton of Afghan villages with glee, and
As far as I can tell, mind’s bankruptcy. These days indifferent to the wrenching “appeasement,” and praised wants to attack any country
Krauthammer’s position on the self-congratulatory motto moral and strategic perplexities George W. Bush for assembling where Al Qaeda may be
torture is owed to a deep and above his blog is “Of No Party that are contained in the awful “the ideal team” for a “task” that found–is something else.
sometimes frantic concern for or Clique,” but in fact Sullivan reality of asymmetrical “cannot be done by airpower Something much darker. Get it?
American security, and his belongs to the party of warfare–but they are not so much alone,” and had kind words for III.
position on the war in Gaza to a Mearsheimer and the clique of answers as bar-room retorts; America’s “world A day later, on January 14,
deep and sometimes frantic Walt (whom he cites frequently moody explosions of verbal hegemony”–the politics changes, Sullivan permitted himself
concern for Israeli security, and and deferentially), to the herd of violence; more invective from the fever remains the same–and another thought on Israel. This is
his position on Iran to a deep and fearless dissidents who proclaim another American crank. Worst also included this unforgettable the whole of it:
sometime frantic concern for in all seriousness, without in any of all, the explanation that sentence: “The decadent Left in “The Netanyahu government has
American and Israeli security. way being haunted by the history Sullivan adopts for almost its enclaves on the coasts is not
Whatever the merits of his of such an idea, that Jews control everything that he does not like dead – and may well mount what SOMETHING page 34
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was still a communist. As it leading role in preventing an fit each new context, leading the he also disdained the easy it for granted that writers should
happens, his relationship with alliance between the Socialist reader’s eyes to glaze over and antifascism that was popular in also be men of action, and as in
the OSS caused him to soften his and Communist parties. He also his mind to wander. This is Italy at the time. To be “anti” the cases of many of his fellow
earlier hostility to capitalist published two more novels, A something of an achievement in only sustained the illusion that writers, it cost him many years in
America, but he maintained his Handful of Blackberries and The a biography of a figure as the fascists were still powerful exile. He and Koestler had first
left-wing principles and Secret of Luca, in which his riveting as Silone. enough to be worth opposing. met in fact in communist literary
continued to insist to the estrangement from communism Silone still awaits a proper Silone turned instead to Europe, circles in Switzerland before the
Americans that after the war, became a major theme. biography in English, but for having concluded as early as war, and then again in Rome in
even though Italy would be Pugliese notes that the story of those who already know 1946 that remaking Europe was 1948, soon after the success of
occupied as an enemy power, its Silone’s zigzag path into something of his life and work, even more important than Koestler’s masterpiece Darkness
people should be allowed to hold socialism, and then from Pugliese is worth wading into. remaking its individual at Noon. Koestler, who agreed
free elections and decide on their socialism into communism and His analysis of Silone’s ideas on countries. “The unification of with Silone about Europe and the
own form of government, which back to socialism again, is fascism, and his account of the Europe is the fundamental political direction it should take,
he was convinced would be a complicated by his many geopolitical intricacies of the political task of our generation,” had come fresh from meetings in
socialist one. omissions and silences, and his postwar settlement in he declared. “If we do not solve Paris with Sartre, Camus, and
By war’s end, Silone was also, selfevident penchant for myth- Europe—along with Silone’s this problem our generation can Malraux, and their discussions of
at last, prepared to make his making; unfortunately these complicated maneuvers between consider itself an historic what to do about Europe. Silone
twenty-year-old break with the attributes seem to have the parties, and his ambivalent failure.” The following year, as knew the French writers through
Communist Party explicit and contributed to the chaos in attempts to become a president of the PEN Center in his own frequent visits to Paris
public. He did so in “Emergency Pugliese’s baffling book. politician—is very skillfully Italy, he spoke at an international and contributions to Sartre’s Les
Exit,” his contribution to The Pugliese is determined not to done. Pugliese shows why PEN conference in Basel on Temps Modernes and other
God That Failed, a remarkable write a conventional, Silone, despite his refusal to “The Dignity of Intelligence and French journals. All of
volume of testimony by ex- chronological biography, and not allow the Italian Socialist Party the Unworthiness of them—Silone, Koestler, Camus,
communists conceived and to seem “omniscient” or to collaborate with the Intellectuals,” pointing to the Sartre, Malraux—had been with
edited by Arthur Koestler and overbearing, but he ties himself communists, found it so hard to unique responsibility that the Communist Party at one time
Richard Crossman. The essay in such knots to avoid the pitfalls engage in the kind of ideological intellectuals bore toward society, or another, and all of them were
included a lot about Prince he fears that he falls into the warfare that Koestler advocated. and to the inability of most of preoccupied with the prospects
Torlonia and the Abruzzo cafoni, opposite trap of repeatedly losing In his essay for The God That them, including himself, to rise for socialism and supported the
but what got Silone into trouble his way in his own narrative, Failed, Silone emphasized that to the challenge. In 1949, at concept of a united continent.
was his revelation about visiting which in many respects is his expulsion from the party had another PEN conference, he Indeed, for a brief time in the
Moscow in 1927 and refusing to rambling and unfocused to the been “a very sad day for me, a admonished writers and late 1940s, it looked as if they
sign the resolution condemning point of incoherence. He aims to day of mourning, of mourning intellectuals not to submit to the might all line up behind a
Trotsky. This was his first public treat Silone’s life thematically, for my youth.” He never forgot power of the state, or to become common concept of Europe as
mention of it, and Trotsky’s slicing it up into chapters on the communist idealism of his “vassals” of those in power free, united, anticommunist, and
widow published a scathing Silone and the Communist Party, early days and his affection for anywhere. And demonstrating social democratic.
letter accusing him of moral Silone’s writing and exile, Silone his comrades, even when he was again his perpetual drive for The concept was shared by the
cowardice for waiting twenty- and post-fascism, Silone and forced to acknowledge the evenhandedness, he charged American liberals who had
two years to reveal the truth cold war culture, and so on, but infernal corruption of the party them to resist “the corruption of successfully established the
about the infamous and although he has interesting machine. After the war, Silone the mass media” in the West. Marshall Plan for Western
supposedly “unanimous” things to say about all these seemed unable to commit It was natural in these Europe and helped to organize
resolution. Meanwhile Silone topics, his disregard for himself completely to any circumstances for Silone to reach the Congress for Cultural
was back in postwar Italy and chronology or coherence leads political program and out to European writers like Freedom conference in 1950, but
served as a Socialist deputy from him to repeat facts, dates, and increasingly held himself aloof himself. He was part of the
1946 to 1948, when he played a anecdotes over and over again to from political life. Interestingly, generation of the 1930s that took SAINT page 35
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all but declared war on the it.) The settlers on the West Bank give the whole picture. “The abusing, is not a Jewish virtue, or Then, two weeks later, Sullivan
Obama administration and then and the religious fascists in their daily grinding of the Palestinians a Christian virtue, or a Muslim posted whatever was in his head
openly disses a vital ally, midst are not fundamentalists. on the West Bank”: I was in virtue, but a human virtue. Israel about “Jihadism and The Israel
Turkey. The slow cultural shifts They represent a particular Ramallah recently, and the is a secular state. The primary Question,” which is certainly
in Israel–toward ever more school of interpretation of situation is more complex and offense of Israeli brutality in better than “Jihadism and The
a r r o g a n c e , m o r e scriptural and rabbinical even more hopeful. Anyway, the Gaza was not against Jewish Question.” “Jihadism has
fundamentalism, more Russian authorities–a debatable one and a only thing that will save the Maimonides. But Sullivan many causes,” he reflectively
immigrant racism, contempt for deplorable one. But they are not Palestinians from the desperately wants the Jews to be began. Then he remembered
the Muslim world, military fundamentalists. “More Russian occupation–and a less terrible good Jews, to be the best Jews himself and continued: “But the
adventurism, and the daily immigrant racism”: it is a occupation is still an occupation, they can be. He wants edifying idea that Israel’s occupation of
grinding of the Palestinians on problem, though in this region which is terrible–is political Jews. Don’t they realize that if the West Bank and pulverization
the West Bank and pulverization there is a lot of xenophobia to go compromise. With the exception they fail to edify, they may lose of Gaza can be bracketed entirely
and inhumane blockade of the around, which brings us to of Salam Fayyad and Mahmoud his friendship? The fools! Jews out of that dynamic is loopy. …
people of Gaza–well maybe “contempt for the Muslim Abbas on his good days, I do not ought to determine their beliefs It’s clear that taking the Israel-
others can explain it. All I can world.” For the entirety of the see a Palestinian keenness for and their actions apologetically, Palestine question off the table
say is: it saddens me, as a Muslim world, by the entirety of compromise. Again, this does so as not to disappoint “goyim would help us tackle Jihadism
longtime lover of the Jewish Israeli society? I think not. And not justify the Israeli lack of the like me.” This is a common immensely. If the US were to
state. It does not represent the does Sullivan have any notion of same keenness; but again, phenomenon in the experience of help to establish a Palestinian
historic mainstream of liberal the magnitude and the virulence nothing justifies Sullivan’s minorities. They may awaken to state and could be shown to
Jewish society, it is a betrayal of of Muslim contempt for the refusal to give the whole picture. their autonomy, but they must stand up to Netanyahu’s
many Jewish virtues that goyim Jewish world? Muslim contempt If “the Netanyahu government not go too far. Gays are continual provocation, it would
like me deeply admire, and it for Jews does not justify Jewish has all but declared war on the abundantly familiar with this sort help the US advance its interests
seems designed for war as some contempt for Muslims, of course; Obama administration,” it was of phony friendship, as are in the region and the world.”
kind of eternal and uplifting state but nothing justifies Sullivan’s after the Obama administration blacks. “It does not represent the Sullivan then concedes that “it
of mind. I hope Israel shifts refusal to give the whole picture. had all but declared war on the historic mainstream of liberal would not remove or emasculate
soon. For Israel’s sake.” “Military adventurism”: about Netanyahu government. Obama Jewish society”: but what if the [that is not the problem!] the
That bit about Sullivan’s love the wars against Hamas and may have been right about historic mainstream of Jewish more irredentist factions, the
for the Jewish state is poignant, Hezbollah this is an empty and Netanyahu–the skepticism about society were conservative? A Qaeda core, the Saudi nutjobs,
and on behalf of all the good propagandistic phrase. Whatever the latter’s willingness to day does not go by that I do not and the Mumbai maniacs. But it
Jews in America I thank him for went awry in those campaigns, surrender land for a peace that do my humble part to prevent would help shift the paradigm in
it, but I am unmoved. This squib and many Israelis and supporters will bring Palestine into being is such a transformation from which they can use the daily
is an anthology of banalities and of Israel were quick to condemn not exactly fanciful–but Obama coming to pass, but let us humiliations of Arabs in the
stereotypes. The “arrogance” of it, they were hardly failed miserably, and set imagine that it does. What, then? West Bank or the horror of the
Israelis: they are pushy, aren’t adventures–unless you believe everything back. Sullivan’s Will they all be bad Jews, and Gaza attack as ways to move the
they? And the slippery slope that the lives of Israelis under characterization of the recent “something much darker”? Is the Muslim middle.” And that, of
from pushiness in Tel Aviv to attack do not have the same history is dishonest. On the other Jews’ claim upon American course, is what “those who want
inhumanity in Jabaliya: it is moral import as the lives of hand, there is no suggestion that understanding premised upon to brandish Gitmo, embrace
obvious, isn’t it? “More Arabs under attack, which is Netanyahu is Trig’s dad. their conformity to a particular torture, and accelerate Israel
fundamentalism,” Sullivan says, what Sullivan’s malicious epithet And then Sullivan returns to his politics? Is their legitimacy settlements,” “those who want a
but there is no such thing as suggests. It does not answer the condescension toward the Jews. conditional? Sullivan’s more-in- civilizational war,” hope to avert.
Jewish fundamentalism, and question of whether those wars Contemporary Israel is “a sorrow-than-in-anger tone is They “intensify the polarization
there has been no such thing as of retaliation were just wars, it betrayal of many Jewish virtues.” cheap. He can keep his sorrow that the Jihadists relish.”
Jewish fundamentalism since simply dismisses the question. I thought that human rights, if and he can keep his anger.
early Karaism. (He can Google Here, too, Sullivan refuses to this is what Sullivan sees Israel IV. SOMETHING page 37
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the moment for unity—or, at outcome of his preferred policy postwar Italy, however, where a not set in the Abruzzo); a play, were forgeries, whereas his
least, a unity that included was the Congress for Cultural portion of the intelligentsia was The Story of a Humble Christian, opponents held that the
America— soon passed. None of Freedom’s eventual decision to still on the defensive about its based in part on the life of Father handwriting was undoubtedly
the three French writers attended found a stable of literary collaboration with Mussolini and Charles de Foucauld, a French Silone’s. Moreover, the key
the Berlin conference, though magazines in Europe and Asia to another portion consisted of holy man; and a collection of document in the collection, an
Camus and Malraux sent showcase the cultural richness of communists and fellow travelers autobiographical essays, emotional appeal to Bellone to
messages of support. Malraux, the free countries. It was only (and the two camps, for obvious Emergency Exit, named for the release the writer from their
like Koestler, was ready to natural that Silone should reasons, overlapped), the essay that had originally arrangement, dating from 1930,
accept America’s leading role in become co-editor of a new appearance of such an easy target appeared in The God That appeared to suggest a
Europe, and to make a pact of Italian journal, Tempo Presente, was hard to resist. Silone was not Failed. Both the play and the collaboration that had lasted over
convenience with the political similar to sister journals such as helped at this juncture by his essays were critical and ten years.
right (he eventually joined de Encounter in Britain, Preuves in reputation for stubbornness and commercial successes, and in his Somewhat hyperbolically,
Gaulle’s government as minister France, and Der Monat in West his penchant for secrecy. The last years Silone was showered Pugliese compares the fallout
of information), convinced that it Germany. Silone proved to be an Polish writer Gustav Herling, a with honors. When he died in from these heated allegations to
was the only realistic way to excellent editor: cosmopolitan, frequent contributor to Tempo 1978, the president of Italy the impact of the Dreyfus affair
oppose communism. Sartre, sophisticated about literature, Presente and a close friend of lauded the writer—in terms that in France. Members of the pro-
steadfastly anti-capitalist and anti and politically astute— though Silone’s, once described him as many of his compatriots now Silone camp pointed to
-American, briefly tried to find a not astute enough (as the more “truly a man who did not speak shared— as the “noble, rigorous, numerous inconsistencies and
“third way” between the two cynical Koestler was) to spot the much and who knew how to inflexible, democratic conscience weaknesses in the evidence:
blocs, but moved leftward to hidden hand of the CIA behind keep a secret,” and even Silone’s of contemporary Italian culture.” there were surprisingly few
become an apologist for the CCF. second wife and literary Silone’s posthumous reputation letters to account for a whole
Stalinism. Camus, who was In 1967, when word of the collaborator Darina Silone seemed entirely safe, but the decade; no other high-ranking
closest to both Silone and CIA’s role in supporting the described his character as taciturn, introverted survivor of fascist seems to have known
Koestler, bitterly opposed Congress for Cultural Freedom “difficult” and his personality as the Abruzzo earthquake had one about the letters, and no fascists
Sartre’s defense of the Soviet leaked out, it provoked a huge “very complex.” No one, she last secret up his sleeve. It was had ever used the information
Union and clung to a sort of third scandal among intellectuals in added, “ever knew him revealed in 1996, when an Italian that Silone was a spy, even when
way of his own; and though Europe and the United States, completely,” voicing an insight historian caused a sensation they could have destroyed him
Silone parted company from and Silone was thrown on the that was to attain new relevance when he accused Silone of with it; and there was no
Camus over decolonization and defensive. His ideological after Silone’s death. having spied for the fascist conclusive evidence— other than
the war in Algeria, he fully enemies pointed to his wartime Silone, meanwhile, retreated police between the wars. The the handwriting—that “Silvestri”
supported him in his disputation work with the OSS as evidence into his private world. Keeping evidence was to be found in a was Silone. A senior Communist
with Sartre. that he must have been an his own counsel and hewing to series of letters signed by a Party official took another tack,
In Berlin, Silone had the American spy all along, and that his own path, he held aloof from certain "Silvestri” to Guido alleging that Silone had actually
satisfaction of prevailing in his in editing Tempo Presente he had politics and remained Bellone, a high-ranking fascist been a triple agent, having
argument with Koestler that the simply carried out the orders of independent of official circles, police official in Rome, which pretended to spy on party
West should devote itself to the CIA—a ridiculous accusation turning down offers to become the historian had unearthed in the members so he could winkle
cultural and political self- in light of the magazine’s record Italy’s ambassador to France or government archives. Pugliese information from the fascist
improvement and make the of intellectual independence and to head Italy’s newly established devotes his best and most police that would be useful to his
competition with the Soviet bloc its frequent criticism of Western state TV network. Literature was gripping chapter to a detailed communist comrades. This
peaceful rather than institutions. (A part of the genius still his main métier, and apart account of the controversy that would account for the fact that
confrontational, and his of the CIA’s early leaders was to from some journalism he divided Italian public opinion another bitter enemy of Silone’s,
influence on the organizers of the give the writers and intellectuals published a novel, The Fox and over whether the letters were Palmiro Togliatti, did not
conference within the CIA it supported a free hand.) the Camelias, set in Switzerland genuine or not. Silone’s
turned out to be crucial. One In the inflamed context of between the wars (his only novel supporters maintained that they SAINT page 41
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Sullivan seems unaware that his war! Even better, a new war of now, enchanted by do not determine who Muslims territorial compromise, and two
analysis is nothing more than a liberation! Never mind that Israel “engagement” and by Muslims. are, and they are more than their states, for many decades now,
digital version of the traditional is a sovereign and a democratic In the universe of jihadism, reaction to us. What does but Sullivan’s variety of such
analysis of Arabists in state, and that Palestine is not however, this alters nothing. As Sullivan really know about the right thinking is completely
Washington since 1948, and remotely unified on behalf of a matter of numinous conviction, origins and the writings of the repugnant to me. There are
even before. This analysis is not such a solution. But at least it the jihadists are anti-Americans jihadist tradition? Yet he has an decent and indecent ways to
entirely incorrect: America’s would not be a war against a and anti-Semites and anti- even more brilliant theory of the advocate change. About the
alliance with Israel has often Muslim country. And now that Zionists, and their anti-Zionism origins of Muslim anti- Jews, is Sullivan a bigot, or is he
interfered with America’s you mention it, isn’t it time that is a form of anti-Semitism. They Americanism. He accounts for it just moronically insensitive? To
interests in the Arab world. This we attacked a Jewish country? It do not want to take the Israel- not only in terms of Israel’s me, he looks increasingly like
is obvious to any student of would prove our even- Palestine question off the table, policies, but also in terms of the Buchanan of the left. He is
history. But the American handedness, wouldn’t it? But they want to take Israel off the “those who want to brandish the master, and the prisoner, of
alliance with Israel, like a good alas, there’s no way AIPAC will map. Their goals are literal and Gitmo, embrace torture, and the technology of sickly
deal of American foreign policy, allow it. maximal. Their worldview is accelerate Israel settlements.” obsession: blogging–and the
though not these days, was never Having demanded that the Jews unfalsifiable; their “paradigm” The neocons, once more. They divine right of bloggers to
only an affair of interests. behave apologetically in does not “shift.” They do not are what stand between America exempt themselves from the
Sullivan is apparently indifferent America, Sullivan now demands make Sullivan’s distinction and Muslim adulation. Bad Jews interrogations of editors–is also a
to the moral dimension of the that the United States behave between Israel’s existence and are making bad Muslims! I doubt method of hounding. Of course,
alliance. On January 6, moaning apologetically in the world–that Israel’s actions. If the two-state that even Krauthammer believes it is impossible to know what is
that he is “sick of the Israelis and it adjust its relationship with solution were to come into being, that Krauthammer is this in a man’s heart; but on the basis
the Palestinians,” he noted also Israel to the preferences of the the jihadists would consider their important. The neocons have of what Sullivan has written, I
that “I’m sick of having a great Muslim peoples. This is a little job half-done. deranged Sullivan. I suppose would urge him to search his
power like the US being dictated like decrying the election of a It is true that peace and Palestine they must take what victories heart. Such a reckoning would
to in the conduct of its own black president because it will would have a modest and they can get. This would count involve more than the “my bad”
foreign policy by an ally that inflame white racists. (Sullivan marginal impact upon the as merely a small comic episode efficiency of internet
provides almost no real benefit to writes about the “middle” and reputation of the United States in in American political introspection. I do not expect to
the US, and more and more the “core” in the Muslim world the Muslim world. But the scale anthropology, except that see it. If explaining the Trinity to
costs.” The high moral dudgeon as if they were the independents of this impact is too Sullivan’s bitterness crosses the readers of The New Republic is
of the heartless realist: that is and the base in Massachusetts.) inconsiderable to assure anything line into something that is neither not easy, imagine how hard it
quite a trick. Like all of But peace between Israelis and that Israel does an important small nor comic. will be to explain all this.
America’s other allies, Israel is a Palestinians should be made place among the causes of V. Leon Wieseltier is the literary
sovereign state, and like all of primarily for them and by them. jihadism. It may be “loopy,” as I will conclude this editor of The New Republic.
America’s other allies, it And anti-Americanism, like anti- Sullivan says, for Israeli policy unpleasantness here, though For more TNR, become a fan on
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Palestine and Israel.” A new progressive president in America even its abhorrence of Jews. We Palestinian reconciliation, and
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denounce him when, as minister entitled And He Hid Himself. the Communist Party. vision of Christianity. He fell
of justice after the war, he had But none of these details seemed Pugliese ultimately comes down victim to the tragedy of his age.
access to these files. important beside the enormity of on the side of those who believe Caught between the hammer of
The balance of informed opinion the fact of his collaboration. that Silone’s work speaks for totalitarianism and the anvil of
swung against Silone. Further Pugliese catalogs the many itself, and endorses Alexander twentieth-century reality, Silone,
documents were unearthed to books, articles, and debates that Stille’s conclusion that the recent like so many of his peers,
show that Silone had a good have poured forth since these scandals “don’t diminish the “sought in politics that which
reason for approaching the police revelations in painstaking and power of Silone’s writings.” D. politics could not grant him.”
two years before writing his fascinating detail, and he is H. Lawrence once wrote that Like other mortals, he made
incriminating letter: in 1928, his forced to conclude (as Silone’s readers should “judge the tale, mistakes, lost his way, and
beloved younger brother Romolo widow, Darina, also concluded) not the teller,” having in mind sinned; but it is in, and for, his
had been arrested and tortured in
jail (where he died two years
that at least some of the
documents are provably in
the difference between the
complex artistic message
work that Silone will be rightly
remembered, and that is why we
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later) on suspicion of being a
member of the Communist Party
Silone’s handwriting and
therefore genuine. But what does
embodied in a novel or poem and
what was said outside the work
still need to read him.
Michael Scammell’s new book,
Shipping
(which he wasn’t).
Commentators speculated that
the collaboration mean for our
understanding of Silone’s life
by or about the author, but
Lawrence’s dictum fits Silone’s
Koestler: The Literary and
Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Again [Apple]
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proportion of consumers that index (new car, used car, and on par with January (59.0) but v i s i t
have faced difficulties as well as new home), past 30-day down from December (63.0). www.ConsumerReports.org.
the number of negative events purchases of new cars (2.5%) The Consumer Reports Index,
they have encountered. The and used cars (5.8%), reflect The Consumer Reports Stress conducted by the Consumer Apple Patent Shows A
negative events include: the January activity, and were up I n d e x c a p t u r e s a t t i t u d e s Reports National Research 3D Virtual World For
inability to pay medical bills or slightly from the prior month, as regarding the amount of stress Center is a monthly telephone
afford medication, missed were new homes (2.6%). consumers feel compared to a a n d c e l l p h o n e p o l l o f a Buying Their Goods In
mortgage payments, home February’s next 30-day planned year ago. It asks whether they are n a t i o n a l l y r e p r e s e n t a t i v e [Apple]
foreclosure, interest-rate purchases are unchanged from feeling more stressed or less probability sample of American by Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
increase, penalty fees, reduced the prior month for new cars, stressed. When the Stress Index a d u l t s . A t o t a l o f 1 , 2 6 3
Submitted at 2/9/2010 11:07:11 AM
lines of credit or other changes in used cars and homes. is more than 50, consumers are interviews were completed
credit-card terms, job loss or feeling more stress and when it is (1,013 households, 250 cell There was a time, before Avatar,
layoffs, reduced healthcare below 50 they are feeling less phones) among adults aged 18+. when 3D meant crummy virtual
coverage, or the denial of stress compared to a year ago. Interviewing took place between gaming. A recent patent granted
personal loans. The Consumer The Consumer Reports Retail The index can vary from 100 January 28 and January 31, to Apple shows they are (or
Reports Trouble Tracker Index is I n d e x l o o k s a t c o n s u m e r (Total Stress) to a low of 0 (No 2010. The margin of error is +/- were) considering a 3D virtual
then calculated as the proportion purchases in the past 30 days as Stress). 2.8 points at a 95% confidence Apple Store—a more welcoming
o f c o n s u m e r s t h a t h a v e well as the outlook for planned Consumer Reports Employment level. The complete index report, way to shop for Apple products.
experienced at least one of the purchases in the next 30 days Index: 49.0 methodology, and tabular It doesn't sound very "Apple,"
negative events comprising the across several categories. The • The Employment Index stands i n f o r m a t i o n a r e a v a i l a b l e . when they normally favor start
index multiplied by the average Consumer Reports Retail Index at 49.0 for January, reflective of C o n t a c t : C . M a t t F i e l d s , minimalism over cheesy big-
number of events encountered. represents the proportion of net job losses in the prior 30 9 1 4 . 3 7 8 . 2 4 5 4 , headed virtual characters, but as
Consumer Reports Retail Index: r e s p o n d e n t s t h a t m a d e a days, and was on par with c f i e l d s @ c o n s u m e r . o r g . you can see from the diagram
Past 30-Day - 10.9, Next 30-Day p u r c h a s e i n t h e f o l l o w i n g January (49.3). In the past 30 S u b s c r i b e n o w ! above, they are obviously
- 6.9 categories: m a j o r h o m e days, 5.7% reported losing their S u b s c r i b e t o considering the idea of a store
• A s e x p e c t e d C o n s u m e r a p p l i a n c e s , s m a l l h o m e job versus 3.8% starting a new ConsumerReports.org for expert you can walk through and
Reports Past 30-Day Retail a p p l i a n c e s , m a j o r h o m e job. Ratings, buying advice and browse the products in, with the
Index declined to 10.9 from electronics, personal electronics, reliability on hundreds of outside elements portrayed by
January’s 14.1, which reflected and major yard and garden T h e C o n s u m e r R e p o r t s products. Update your feed falling rain/sunshine etc.
December holiday spending.• equipment. The Retail Index is a Employment Index examines the preferences The patent was first filed in
Consumer Reports Next 30-Day w e i g h t e d c a l c u l a t i o n . F o r change in employment of those 2006 by Apple, so I'm hoping
Retail Index for February (6.9) example, a major appliance is of that reported starting a new job they just got swept up in the
are well below pre-holiday levels greater value than a small versus those that have lost their Second Life craze and have
and below the lowest levels appliance. Because of their size job or were laid off in the past 30 forgotten all about some naff
tracked to date in August 2009 and frequency, car and home d a y s . A n i n d e x b e l o w 5 0 virtual world where you can
(7.5). This index was dragged purchases are tracked separately. indicates more jobs were lost exchange 17 green and red
down due to the drop in interest Consumer Reports Stress Index: than gained, while a score more apples for the latest Miley Cyrus
song. [ Patently Apple]
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2.0 champions is often flawed. • pioneering new methods to help groups got wind of the project,
Too often the search is for the clients institute technologies and and started posting their own There's nothing fancy about this
right personality. Instead, the Idinopulos makes the point that practices that fit with the social content, creating their own idea for a home theater, but it's a
focus of the search should really these psychological attributes enterprise. workspaces, starting their own very clever way to save space in
be for the people who are don't work for a few reasons: Dion Hinchcliffe and Michael conversations. Then it started to a small house, using the dead
" e x c h a n g i n g k n o w l e d g e , • The premise that just a few K r i g s m a n o f P r a g m a t i c spread beyond Marketing, to space under the stairs to store a
information, and ideas across have such talents is repudiated E n t e r p r i s e t a k e a h o l i s t i c Sales and Product groups that ton of tech gear.
large parts of the organization." by the fact that it gets adopted by approach. They look at the had initially participated as The setup was built by Jason
Sponsor any number of people who don't political, technical and business consumers of Marketing content. Swell, who thought that this was
Idinopulos compares it to how fit into any one category issues that come with any social Marketing's cross-silo reach the best way to place his 50-inch
The Godfather's Don Corleone • They re not actionable. How Web initiative. They look for positioned them to involve Samsung HLR5078W DLP
would approach the issue when can you scale this across an executive champions who want different parts of the projection television, along with
choosing the right people for the organization of 5,000 to 10,000 to use social technologies to organization, which then went on a Dual-Core Mac Mini, Series 2
job: "It's nothing personal. It's employees? solve a business problem. Once to do their own thing. That Tivo, and Comcast HD STB.
just business." In other words, • The signal does not transmit. the problem is identified, a would not have happened if And rightly so, because it not
people are chosen for their role Do you know the lonely social process begins that seeks out the Marketing's success had been a only saves space, but places the
in the organization not for who media evangelist? The one who spectrum of opinions about the function of one person's screen at a good distance to
they are as people. finally just gives up and says project and the use of Enterprise passion." watch from the sofas.
Let's just say the "Godfather," people "just don't get it." The 2.0 practices for the group. The example is proof that the The stair hides even more high
process is still not widely used. enthusiasm has to transfer to the The business world is enthusiasm comes from how the tech stuff behind that screen: A 1
Often, managers look for the "it" organization. developing its own methods for social technologies help people -terabyte hard drive array, an
factor. Here are a few of the how it makes social technologies in their work so the business can audio amplifier, the 30Mb/s
more common things Idinopulos It's evident a methodology is a part of the business process. At prosper. As the Godfather would FIOS connection, an EyeTV 500
has heard managers say they are emerging for how to make times it may be surprising how say: HD tuner, and a UPS unit. In
looking for: E n t e r p r i s e 2 . 0 a d e e p the technologies get adopted. "It's not personal. It's just fact, he uses five tuners and he is
• The Young and Hip: "Jimmy's institutional focus. Companies Idinopulos points to a marketing business." Discuss able to record three shows
o n l y 2 8 . H e g r e w u p o n like the Dachis Group and manager who turned out to be concurrently while watching a
fourth. [ Flickr via Unplggd]
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company may now be investing nine days later, Google's CEO said to be among the investors. government wants to appear as if It's been almost 2 years to the
in a Chinese digital media Eric Schmidt took a softer tone This move leads credence to the they're "playing nice" with day when Apple released
company, as well. According to during the company's fourth argument put forth in January regards to Western interests. Aperture 2.0, and this morning
reports, the Internet giant is said quarter earnings call. "We wish which had cynics claiming that That move may be precisely the the company announced that the
to be a member of a Disney-led to remain in China," he said. Google's withdrawal from China sort of thing Google needs in third iteration of the photo
consortium looking to invest in a "We like the Chinese people, we had less to do with their so- order to maintain an appearance editing and management
Chinese media and advertising like our Chinese employees, we called "moral high grounds" of concern regarding the cyber software is available. Some of
company called Bus Online. like the business opportunities propped up by the company attack situation while also not the new features include Faces,
Sponsor there." Google to Invest in motto "don't be evil," and had making a regrettable, revenue- Places and Brushes, many of
Google's decision to exit the Chinese Media Company more to do with the fact that impacting business decision by which will be familiar to people
Chinese search business was Google does like the businesses G o o g l e ' s C h i n e s e s e a r c h ceasing Chinese operations using iPhoto '09. With the new
alluded to in their January blog there, apparently. It's a month b u s i n e s s s i m p l y c o u l d n ' t altogether. The only question version, Apple makes it easier
post detailing what appeared to later and the company seems to compete with the more popular now is whether or not the public for people to step up from iPhoto
be state-led cyber attacks which be no closer to shutting down Chinese engine baidu.com. will forgive Google for doing so. to Aperture, while still providing
hit the Internet giant and other their Chinese search operations Hacker Crack Down Could Help Discuss professional photographers with
Silicon Valley companies in mid business than they were back in The reality of the situation may a powerful program for editing
-December. As a result, Google January. In addition, sources say
and managing their libraries.
Apple says the new software
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interesting, but they are only the with location too. One of my people and fanning pages. It's Baumann, a former insurance
beginning of what's possible. favorite results is that Texans are like we're constantly voting in a actuary, stepped in to help and is
Name, location, friends and more likely to be fans of the hundred different ways every now running much of the
interests are great data points to Dallas Cowboys than God." day. And I'm a starry-eyed crawling. He says he's now
analyze. Warden has written a Warden says he hasn't talked to believer that we'll be able to focused on "working on ways of Lady Gaga Now Shares
program that will estimate anyone from Facebook since he change the world for the better presenting all this information in a Penis with George
gender as well, based on names. started crawling the site, but he using that neglected information. a form that answers questions for
All these data points can be cross did get an email from someone It's like an x-ray for the whole people willing to pay." His first Washington [Going
-referenced with outside data, on the security team asking him country - we can see all sorts of experiment along those lines is Gaga]
too. Members of Facebook's to take down instructions he'd hidden details of who we're the very interesting by Brian Moylan (Gawker)
own staff did this kind of posted that exposed a security friends with, where we live, what FanPageAnalytics.com.
Submitted at 2/9/2010 10:47:20 AM
analysis when they compared hole that made harvesting we like." What does Pete Warden hope
user last names to U.S. Census peoples' email addresses easy. For a great example of the kind for from this week's public Beloved hermaphrodite and pop
data, which allowed them to So the company is paying of social impact that data release of all this Facebook data? art whosiwhatsit Lady Gaga
estimate changes in Facebook's attention. "I'd love to see them analysis can make, Warden "Hopefully I'll get to see a bunch finally gets the perfect tribute
racial composition over time put me out of business by putting points to some of the fascinating of interesting [academic from artist Craig Gleason[
based on the likelihood of people decent data out there," Warden ways that GIS data is research] papers come out of it, NSFW] who is making dollar
with particular last names to says. He says his Amazon Web illuminating the intersection of worst case. And I'd like to be the bills in her likeness. Yes, the
report a particular racial Services bill was over $5,000 race and public services. Data guy people turn to when they medium is definitely the
backgrounds. last month. has shed light on social injustices need stuff like this." message, even if may be kind of
"I'm mostly thinking 'What do I Why is he indexing all this for decades, and measurable Already well-respected among a illegal.
try first?'," Warden says. content and why is he going to information about the fringe group of bleeding-edge
"There's so many interesting hand it over to the academic interactions of hundreds of geeks, we hope that Warden's
ways to slice the data - especially world later this week? "I am millions of people every day on work on social graph analysis
as I'm starting to get changes fascinated by how we can build Facebook offers opportunities to will end up impacting a far larger
over time. I'm also trying to map tools to understand our world discover both good and bad news number of people than may ever
out political networks in and connect people based on all about the contemporary human know his name. Discuss
aggregate; how polarized the the data we're just littering the condition.
fans of particular politicians are - Internet with," Warden says. Warden says he's not yet been
so how likely a Sarah Palin fan is "Nobody thinks about how much able to interest any investors in
to have any friends who are fans valuable information they're his ideas for businesses based on
of Obama, and how that varies generating just by friending this data, so his girlfriend Liz
touchscreen that runs off an Intel costs any way they can to get on
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Apple May Lower the Price of the iPad: This is Not News
by Liam Cassidy who, following a meeting with level iPad. Here Come the Trolls It comes down to this; the wider
(TheAppleBlog) Apple executives, said; Sadly, the predictable fan- tech press are, inexplicably,
Submitted at 2/9/2010 7:14:19 AM
“While it remains to be seen how baiting didn’t take long, with the falling over themselves to write-
much traction the iPad gets likes of Should-Know-Better- off the iPad as a failure before
Sometimes I have to wonder initially, management noted that Than-That Windows evangelist it’s even out of the starting gate.
whether everyone has taken it will remain nimble (pricing Paul Thurrott writing, in a blog (Don’t forget, the iPod was
leave of their senses. The big“ could change if the company is post provocatively entitled “Do panned by critics and tech
news” doing the rounds in the not attracting as many customers surprising by admitting the fact Not, Under Any Circumstances, “experts” when it first launched.
last twenty four hours is that as anticipated),” that, according to the ebb and Buy an iPad”; The iPhone was subject to its
Apple execs have admitted they This only bolsters my long-held flow of consumer demand, it will Following news that I was right own fair share of harsh criticism,
are prepared to change the price belief that analysts are, revisit its pricing strategy for the about Apple’s decision to not too.)
of the iPad should consumer apparently, paid for pointing out iPad. This is what all businesses allow iPad pre-orders would No one can say exactly how
reception (read: sales) demand it. the blindingly-obvious. That do with all products, all the time. cause many potential buyers to successful the iPad will be, and
Yeah, that’s right; Apple tendency to wrap together Apple is always revising its reassess things, comes this while there’s no harm in
admitted it might revisit the price common sense and “what we all prices; MacBooks, iMacs, iPods unbelievable bit of news directly speculating (after all, much
of the iPad sometime in the knew anyway” as “something and iPhones get at least one price from Apple itself: The company Apple coverage is precisely that)
future, and change it according new and worthy of reporting” is change on an annual basis. It’s said that it would aggressively it’s sad to see how some corners
to sales performance. Shocking, usually exemplified by Gene not a big deal that they will do lower prices on the iPad if/when of the tech community choose to
that a company might operate Munster, but since he’s been the same for the iPad, and it i t d o e s n ’ t t a k e o f f i n t h e interpret every little thing Apple
according to a business plan quiet for the last week or so, I certainly doesn’t point to any m a r k e t p l a c e . does (or says it might do) as
designed to encourage sales and guess Shope will have to do. lack of confidence in the product Aside from the clumsy jumble “evidence” of failure.
make money, eh? Apparently, (I predict that, in the weeks of clauses and inventive use of I think I’m being rational and
itself.
that’s somehow mind-boggling ahead of the iPad launch, Let’s not forget the infamous the adjective ‘aggressively’, (as level-headed. You might think
news. Munster, or some inspired iPhone price-cut of ‘07; after far as I can see, neither Shope I’m a shameless fanboy. Either
It got started because of a report analyst like him, will issue a note launching the iPhone with a nor Phillips ever used that word) way, let me know exactly what
by Matt Phillips of the Wall to the press proclaiming, hefty $599 asking price, Apple I really want to point out, one you think in the comments
Street Journal, who wrote; “Apple’s App store sales will reduced it by a whopping $200 last time, and for the record — below.
Apple intends to stay “nimble” perform better in this quarter just a few months later. The only this is not “unbelievable” news. Related GigaOM Pro Research:
on pricing of the iPad, possibly than in the same quarter last difference between then and now Far from it. It is, in fact, the • Web Tablet Survey: Apple’s
lowering prices if the newly year.” Or it’ll be something even is Apple’s transparency (yeah, I most ordinary, run-of-the-mill, iPad Hits Right Notes
unveiled tablet device fails to more obvious, like “Apple will can’t believe I said that either). standard business practice, • 5 Tips for Developers
gain traction among consumers. sell more iPads this year than During his keynote presentation entirely believable news one Targeting the iPad
(Top prize goes to Engadget for they did in 2009…” and I late last month, Steve Jobs said could expect from a consumer • How AT&T Will Deal with
t h e i r h u m o r o u s guarantee the tech press will rush of the iPad; “We want to get this electronics company. (Quite iPad Data Traffic
response/headline, “Apple to be to report that ‘advice’ like it’s into the hands of as many people what Apple’s flexible pricing
‘nimble’ on iPad pricing, athletic vitally important “news.” You as possible.” That is, after all, the strategy has to do with Thurrott’s
on pommel horse”.) just wait and see.) Confidence o v e r r i d i n g r e a s o n f o r t h e theory about the inability to pre-
Phillips quoted a note from The point here is that Apple is agreeably-low price of the entry- order an iPad is beyond me; can
Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope doing nothing revolutionary or anyone say “straw man?”)
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Howard Stern Says He Final 'Jay Leno Show' Coke gets lift
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producers are interested as Kutcher, Gabourey Sidibe, and cent from the $995m it earned
having Stern as a judge. b a r g a i n i n g c h i p f o r a Bob Costas. I know, they're not during the fourth quarter of
This entire situation seems more renegotiation of his contract with exactly the type of guests that a 2008, paced by strong revenues
sound and fury and it's unlikely Sirius. Stern would be too much person has on their final show outside North America,
that anything would come of it. of a turn-off for the majority of (no offense to Mr. Kutcher, Ms. particularly in Eurasia and
All Stern has in common with viewers for 'American Idol'. If he Sidibe, or Mr. Costas), but this Africa. The results matched
this Jay Leno person after his
Cowell is the ability to be does end up replacing Cowell, probably was not meant to be a expectations from analysts.
show ends tonight. But he's a
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Most likely this situation is I don't know what's in store for
being used by Stern as a
Boxx is bringin' tulips to this... wique. Last episode she stood there and... lip-synced.
Toyota recalls Prius
Amsterdam tonight, honey!" Or,
"Ohhh lawwwd no! Tatianna
didn't stand out at all, but this go
around she looked pretty and
Snoozer. Understandably, she
went home. Which is good. She over brake problem
just signed the Treaty of Ver sigh terrific. All cool beauty and seemed nice, but her presence (Financial Times - US In a news conference broadcast
with that number!" "The dingo pursed lips. Plus she's definitely was just increasingly awkward. homepage) live on television in Japan, Mr
sure didn't eat Raven's baby the best looking out of drag, so She seemed a little desperate in Submitted at 2/9/2010 2:03:19 AM
Toyoda said the Japanese
today, chile!" It's just so weird that doesn't hurt. an unpleasant way. Who knows. carmaker had decided to recall
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balance is a raggedy three Paige Brooks. Something about Girl, I think that's it? Huh? Akio Toyoda, chief executive of with the software that controls
hundred dollars!" "Baby, I think Nicole tells me that she was What's that Ru? Toyota Motor, on Tuesday said their anti-lock brakes. Other
this is 8th Street/NYU, but lady I maybe something of a big, old "Fool, if you wanna make a call, he would travel to the US to models affected by the latest
don't know for sure. Next stop is fish in a small, also old pond? please hang UP the damn phone explain the Japanese carmaker’s recall include the Sai and Lexus.
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her eagle-eye makeup and stern, the lip-sync. Raven was busting
chopped wigcuts. 2. Sonique! I around with funny little bits and
was so surprised by Sonique moves, while Nicole just sorta
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Julius still offered to make Peppers the new people." Philadelphia and New England,
Peppers no longer wants a long- NFL's highest-paid defensive Trgovac and defensive line could be interested. But there are
term contract with Carolina player. Peppers on Tuesday coach Sal Sunseri left. Ron also questions about Peppers'
Panthers, saying the Panthers provided conflicting reasons on Meeks took over the defense and inconsistency. He acknowledged
have ignored him this offseason. why he rejected the contract. Brian Baker replaced Sunseri. At on Tuesday that even former
NFC South blog “ the same time, the Panthers defensive coordinator Jack Del
ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas How can you say you want to be placed the restrictive franchise Rio, now coach of the
writes about all things NFC
South in his division blog.
somewhere when you're not
really sure if they want you there
tag on Peppers, limiting his
options in free agency.
Jacksonville Jaguars, told him
during his rookie year in 2002
The Count: The
• Blog network: NFL Nation
In an interview aired Tuesday
because they're not even talking
to you?”-- Julius Peppers
"I never felt that they did that
with the intent to keep me here,"
that it doesn't appear he's playing
hard on every down.
Super Bowl’s
morning on Charlotte radio
station WFNZ-AM, the five-time
"That deal was to make me the
highest-paid defensive player,
Peppers said. "I felt like they did
that in attempt to send me off
"I told him just because it doesn't
look like I'm running as hard as
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team's "silence" and has changed the sincerity behind that deal." whatever." breathing hard doesn't mean I'm
his stance on whether he wants But later in the rambling answer There was no deal and Peppers not trying as hard," Peppers said. If the play of the Saints’ Super
to continue his career in during the radio phone interview, eventually changed his tune, "I'm still trying hard, it just Bowl victory wasn’t going to be
Carolina. Peppers also indicated he wasn't beginning negotiations on a long doesn't look like it. I do it a pass from MVP Drew Brees, it
"Last year, at the time, that was worthy of such a deal. -term contract. But a deal easier." was fitting that it was Louisiana
the option that I wanted most," "I had 2½ sacks that season and couldn't be reached and Peppers But despite 81 sacks in eight native Tracy Porter’s
Peppers said. "Now it's not." they're coming to offer me being played under the one-year tender seasons, the 30-year-old Peppers' interception return for a
While agent Carl Carey said last the highest-paid defensive worth an NFL-high $16.7 future is murky. The Panthers touchdown in the fourth quarter.
week he believes the Panthers player. Like, I can't even accept million. After recording 10½ have until Feb. 25 to use the An otherwise ordinary New
aren't interested in retaining that," Peppers said. "I'm not sacks, Peppers made the Pro franchise tag. Orleans defensive unit was
Peppers, Carolina's career sacks deserving of that." Bowl and earned a $1.5 million "The silence says a lot without extraordinary at turning
leader, team officials haven't Peppers bounced back with a bonus. saying anything," Peppers said. opponents’ passes into scores.
announced their plans for the career-high 14½ sacks in 2008, The Panthers could use the "That is kind of a turnoff." Associated Press Tracy Porter
impending free agent. General then announced he wanted to franchise tag again in 2010, but it Copyright 2010 by The and the rest of the Saints
manager Marty Hurney didn't play elsewhere and pleaded with would include a 20 percent raise. Associated Press secondary learned some moves
immediately return a phone the Panthers to let him leave in Peppers would be due $20.1 Five Filters featured article: from their offensive teammates.
message Tuesday. free agency. He said Tuesday he million, plus another $1.5 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: The Saints led all NFL teams
"How can you say you want to wanted out because he was upset million Pro Bowl bonus and PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, with five interception returns for
be somewhere when you're not with the team's direction under $250,000 for each playoff Term Extraction. touchdowns. Just three other
really sure if they want you there then-defensive coordinator Mike victory. teams had more than two (the
because they're not even talking Trgovac. Carolina could use the franchise Colts were one of 11 teams with
to you?" Peppers said. "In my eyes I didn't see us tag again and try to trade two). Just 3.1% of passing
It's another twist in a long- getting any better on that side of Peppers, but Peppers would attempts in the NFL this year
running saga between the two the ball," Peppers said. "I felt almost certainly first have to were picked off, but 4.5% of
sides. like it was time to try somewhere agree to a long-term deal with passes against the Saints defense
After being held to a career-low else, do something else. But that team. were. And fewer than one in 10
2½ sacks in 2007, the Panthers things changed. They brought in Several clubs, such as interceptions were returned for
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line of stars on the ceiling above coach/quarterback relationship relationship that sets the standard next few seasons. And that is
him. Filed under: Canadiens With
that colors your team. The head for team-wide relationships. great news for both. And for surprise timing, Bob Gainey
Saint Brees. coach and quarterback garner "With Sean, it's like ESP,'' Brees Saints teams to follow.
That is how New Orleans Saints stepped down on Monday as
much of the credit and much of said. "We have trust, faith and president of the Montreal
fans now regard him. It is how the blame in any NFL city. That confidence. I feel like I know the
his coach, Sean Payton, in some Canadiens. Gainey has been
duo's aura -- or lack of it -- sets play that's going to be called.'' replaced by his assistant Pierre
ways considers him. And for
Gauthier, and he will stay in the
UPSET organization as a consultant.
continued from page 70 "I've done my best," said Gainey.
making the NCAA tournament news to overshadow it, for FSU Wednesdays, a scandal this big Found a good column from the "Now it's time for me to pass the
appear slim at best.”* * * to announce the decision to would have been a top story. On world of sports? Don’t keep it to torch. I want to have more
There’s never a great time for a vacate 12 wins in football, the the day after the Super Bowl, it’s yourself — write to us at control over my own time. What
college’s athletic department to 2007 men’s outdoor track-and- impossible to find a columnist dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll I'll do with it, I don't know.
vacate a bunch of wins. But field national championship, and out there who gave it any consider your find for inclusion Maybe I'll play the piano."
Florida State University’s a host of wins in women’s thought. in the Daily Fix. You can email Gainey's final season has been a
academic-cheating scandal — basketball, softball, baseball and “Shhh. You hear that? It’s the David at droth11@gmail.com. mixed bag. In the offseason he
which wound up encompassing other sports? On Sunday, hours sound of Florida State moving signed leading goal scorer Mike
61 student-athletes in 10 sports before a Super Bowl in the same on,” ESPN’s Heather Dinich Cammalleri(26 goals before a
— was inevitably going to lead state would wash the news all writes. recent injury). He also agreed to
to a bunch of retroactive forfeits. but off the sports pages, FSU — Tip of the Fix cap to reader an out-of-touch deal where he
What better time, then, than a stepped up and announced its Don Hartline and fellow Fixer
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DMAs receiving it. from homes served by AT&T U- Beyond local markets, Rentrak
Garnered from set-top boxes, verse, Charter Communications provides data for national
the data provides stations' and Dish Network. The company networks through its TV
guidance on viewing trends, has had access to Dish data for Essentials service (StationView
which can be used to pitch some time, but announced is a derivative of that). Livek
advertisers or perhaps serve as a Monday that it has rights to sell said Rentrak has initially focused
currency. Unlike Nielsen, it to stations as part of its on networks that don't subscribe
StationView Essentials can services. to Nielsen ratings -- such as
provide commercial performance That deal is believed to help Bloomberg Television - as
information in local markets -- send its stock price up 10% clients, but is now looking to
including how DVR-enabled Monday to the $17 range. expand to larger networks.
viewing may lead to ad-skipping. Livek said Rentrak is the only In the 2009 October-December
Still, that is only believed to be
at the household level, without
measurement service able to
offer networks and advertisers
period, the company division
with the
MediaDailyNews:
demographic breakdowns. data from homes that subscribe "Essentials" products produced
Rentrak says StationView can
provide local second-by-second
to cable, satellite and telco TV
service.
19% of Rentrak's $23.1 million
in revenues. The company
Kagan: TV Ad Revs
data in all 210 markets.
CEO Livek spoke an earnings
"This will allow us to provide
advertisers and their agencies
swung to a net loss of $579,000
in the quarter. Less In 2013, Than 2006
call, where Rentrak reported that with a holistic view of detailed The "Essentials" products track (MediaPost | Media News) revenue in three years from a 1%
the operations with the branded viewing behaviors," he said on mobile and Internet usage, Submitted at 2/8/2010 9:16:54 AM share in 2006. Online revenues
"Essentials" services saw the earnings call. among other consumer will rise to 7% in 2013 from 1%
revenues in the October- Its cable sample, however, behaviors. Message from fivefilters.org: If in 2006.
December period increase 34% comes from only about 300,000 Five Filters featured article: you can, please donate to the full In 2009, SNL Kagan said TV
(to $4.3 million). It's a small but homes served by Charter Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: -text RSS service so we can station traditional ad revenues
growing part of the company's Communications in the Los PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, continue developing it. Although sank 20% to $19 billion.
business, where the majority of Angeles market. Term Extraction. the advertising share of revenues Going forward, the report said
revenues still come from Overall, Livek said Rentrak from digital and retransmission even with growing online and
tracking the home entertainment draws data from 15 million sets, fees will grow in the coming retransmission revenues, "there
market. but it's not known how many are years, overall ad dollars for TV w i l l s t i l l b e s i g n i f i c a n t
Rentrak draws StationView data Dish or AT&T homes. stations will still be $3 billion b u m p i n e s s , " e s p e c i a l l y
less in three years than ad dollars considering the even and odd
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A recent report from SNL spending.
thanks to improved auto revenue in future years for TV protect that revenue stream, Kagan says overall TV station The findings factor in the recent
advertising spending means total stations could be a negative for allowing stations to keep their revenues will be $21.7 billion in l a n d m a r k d e c i s i o n b y t h e
TV station revenues could be up online local and national video importance as local distributors." 2013 -- against the $24.6 billion Supreme Court, which gives
5% to 7% this year. platforms. Five Filters featured article: take in 2006. corporations the freedom to
Although auto advertising is up The report says: "Networks Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: W h e r e t r a d i t i o n a l T V advertise around political issues
by 50% in many markets, SNL receiving retrans fees for their PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, advertising represented 97% of a and candidates.
Kagan says it is higher in programming are also more apt Term Extraction. typical TV station's revenue take, The report suggests that an
comparison to severely to restrict the amount of free i t w i l l b e 8 4 % i n 2 0 1 3 . upturn in local TV advertising
depressed 2009 levels. programming they make Retransmission fees will grow to
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