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Daniel Keys Moran

I'm being interviewed today by a staff writer from The New Yorker. On preparation for the destabilization I see coming, first in politics but also in (probable) ecological collapse.

I read several of the man's columns to prepare; he is bright and seems sane. I have no particular faith that the article produced will be what I would want; as is usually the case, the writer seems to be a liberal, but his publication's owners are oligarchs, likely worth somewhere in excess of 20 billion dollars.

I don't regularly read the New Yorker, I do know that it has a good reputation, but so does the New York Times and Trump has really had no better friends in the mainstream press. Bright honest writers can have an impact -- that's what conservatives mean when they snarl about bias, the reality that most reporters are liberal. (Because educated.)

But he works for the people who are causing the problems I see coming, and I will be cautious in talking to him, and control my expectations.

@fatsam

From what I know of the New Yorker, I would refuse the interview and not have a doubt about it. Even if that particular writer has a liberal bent and that is reflected in what he writes of you, it will be wrung out of his words by an editor before it reaches publication.

@fatsam

You'll find that the result is factual, but some facts won't appear, and the facts that do will be framed from the boss's boss's boss point-of-view.

@fatsam Yeah. Corporate media gonna corporate media. 😕

Good luck! I’ll look out for it.