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The Soviets actually released photos of the work in progress, and if our eyes do not deceive us, the welders are burning little tiny holes along thousands of miles of pipeline.

President Reagan’s comments on unsavory participants in the nuclear-freeze campaign drew the usual criticism—McCarthyism—and an unusual one—his information, poor guy, came from Reader’s Digest. Reader’s Digest—get it? Well, neither do we. Does Reader’s Digest not check its facts? Does it lack the even-handedness of the Village Voice? The intellectual depth of Newsweek? The tireless legwork of “Talk of the Town”? Or is it that some investigative journalists investigated something their ideologically blinkered peers do not consider worth pursuing—and their peers, unwilling to rebut, much less discuss, fall back on unfounded snobbery as a defense? Us, we’re keeping our subscription, along with Susan Sontag.

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The Soviets actually released photos of the work in progress, and if our eyes do not deceive us, the welders are burning little tiny holes along thousands of miles of pipeline.

President Reagan’s comments on unsavory participants in the nuclear-freeze campaign drew the usual criticism—McCarthyism—and an unusual one—his information, poor guy, came from Reader’s Digest. Reader’s Digest—get it? Well, neither do we. Does Reader’s Digest not check its facts? Does it lack the even-handedness of the Village Voice? The intellectual depth of Newsweek? The tireless legwork of “Talk of the Town”? Or is it that some investigative journalists investigated something their ideologically blinkered peers do not consider worth pursuing—and their peers, unwilling to rebut, much less discuss, fall back on unfounded snobbery as a defense? Us, we’re keeping our subscription, along with Susan Sontag.