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Posted: 2/5/08, 10:57 PM EST Section: News
Robert McClure, a political science and public affairs professor, agreed with Obbie.
"The danger is that you read The Nation or National Review and you think that it's the only way to look at the world, that it's God's truth, and that is dangerous," McClure said.
McClure said everyone should seek to read the perspectives of those who disagree with us, but to use a critical viewpoint because publications like The Nation will arrange the facts to illustrate their perspective.
"It's a legitimate perspective, but it is an arrangement of the facts," McClure said. "Therefore, I urge people in politics to read a journal on the left and a journal on the right and to try to find the fundamental facts down the middle."
Rothberg, the magazine's publisher, said The Nation will give people a good sense of what a certain segment of America is thinking and try to engage them to take a position on issues ranging from the Iraq War to healthcare.
"The mission since we founded The Nation in 1865 is really just to report on what we think are the most important events going on in America and around the world," Rothberg said. "We're a general interest magazine that exists not to make money because we don't, but to promote a certain set of values and report on America as we see it."
"The danger is that you read The Nation or National Review and you think that it's the only way to look at the world, that it's God's truth, and that is dangerous," McClure said.
McClure said everyone should seek to read the perspectives of those who disagree with us, but to use a critical viewpoint because publications like The Nation will arrange the facts to illustrate their perspective.
"It's a legitimate perspective, but it is an arrangement of the facts," McClure said. "Therefore, I urge people in politics to read a journal on the left and a journal on the right and to try to find the fundamental facts down the middle."
Rothberg, the magazine's publisher, said The Nation will give people a good sense of what a certain segment of America is thinking and try to engage them to take a position on issues ranging from the Iraq War to healthcare.
"The mission since we founded The Nation in 1865 is really just to report on what we think are the most important events going on in America and around the world," Rothberg said. "We're a general interest magazine that exists not to make money because we don't, but to promote a certain set of values and report on America as we see it."
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