From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204) The Spotlight *used* to be a really revolting rag; some people I was talking to recently who were selling it said they've tried to get rid of the anti-Semitism and racist hate stuff that the Carto folks were pushing and concentrate more on Truth (or whatever the conspiracy-wacko version of Truth is at any given time :-). I didn't buy their magazine to find out if it's really improved or if they're just saying it, but it was nice to hear them say it.
Bill-- Far as I know, things haven't really changed. What the Spotlight and other papers/organizations like it have been doing recently is trying to clean up their public image to gain respectability and a wider audience (look at David Duke himself, for example). They've been fairly successful, unfortunately. There's been an increased interest in the last few years in conspiracy theories and the like (an interest I share), and as a result the readership of papers like the Spotlight has been growing. I think that if you flipped through a copy of the Spotlight today, you'd merely get the impression that they're healthy skeptics trying to expose the misdeeds of the government and other evil conspirators. Fair enough. But their real agenda hasn't changed. My analysis: The recent growth of these organizations shows that there's been a real increase in interest in anarchistic ideas and distrust of authority among the general public. Good news. The bad news is that there are various vermin waiting in the wings to take advantage of people's openness to new and "radical" ideas. Caveat emptor.
The other magazine called "Spotlight" I've run into is the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's program handout, truly a hotbed of radical something-or-other-ism :-)
Sounds dangerous to me. I'd watch out. --Dave.
On Sportlight, I recall someone (Factsheet 5?) recommending another pub, the quarterly Paranoia (which you can actually buy on newsstands in NYC), because "they get a lot of stuff from Spotlight, so you won;t have to soil you hands with the original source." It's a fine magazine, and even has an email address: paranoia@aol.com (but would a paranoid use email?) James O'Meara Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn E-mail: prgm@class.org 1585 Broadway Voice: 212-969-5021 New York, NY 10036 Fax: 212-969-2900 On Fri, 22 Apr 1994, David Mandl wrote:
From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204) The Spotlight *used* to be a really revolting rag; some people I was talking to recently who were selling it said they've tried to get rid of the anti-Semitism and racist hate stuff that the Carto folks were pushing and concentrate more on Truth (or whatever the conspiracy-wacko version of Truth is at any given time :-). I didn't buy their magazine to find out if it's really improved or if they're just saying it, but it was nice to hear them say it.
Bill--
Far as I know, things haven't really changed. What the Spotlight and other papers/organizations like it have been doing recently is trying to clean up their public image to gain respectability and a wider audience (look at David Duke himself, for example). They've been fairly successful, unfortunately. There's been an increased interest in the last few years in conspiracy theories and the like (an interest I share), and as a result the readership of papers like the Spotlight has been growing. I think that if you flipped through a copy of the Spotlight today, you'd merely get the impression that they're healthy skeptics trying to expose the misdeeds of the government and other evil conspirators. Fair enough. But their real agenda hasn't changed.
My analysis:
The recent growth of these organizations shows that there's been a real increase in interest in anarchistic ideas and distrust of authority among the general public. Good news. The bad news is that there are various vermin waiting in the wings to take advantage of people's openness to new and "radical" ideas. Caveat emptor.
The other magazine called "Spotlight" I've run into is the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's program handout, truly a hotbed of radical something-or-other-ism :-)
Sounds dangerous to me. I'd watch out.
--Dave.
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