Burma, Deep Background

Via Fallows, the Atlantic's 1958 special supplement on Burma. Props as always to the web team for finding this stuff in the archives and getting it up on the site.

Comments

OT: How does theatlantic.com decide which order to place the bloggers on the drop down menu? FALLOWS should be right below the drop down as he's THE MAN. SULLIVAN has the most traffic and loves himself so you'll have to keep him within two slots of the drop down menu. Why does DOUTHAT get the prime real estate of the first drop down slot? I'd swap the FALLOWS and DOUTHAT slots and the MCMEGHAN and AMBINDER slots and I think the lineup would make a lot more sense.

And definitely props to The Atlantic. Ewe guys have a fine produck.

Posted by joejoejoe | May 15, 2008 5:27 PM

So, in 1958 Atlantic put out a 70-page supplement on Burma, a country with small impact on the US. With articles written by natives, no less.

In 2008, after over five years of a disastrous occupation in the Middle East by the US, The Atlantic hasn't put out a single article about Iraq written by an Iraqi. Half the published articles are neocon wankfests about moving borders and toppling regimes.

How the standards of publishing have fallen.

Posted by kvenlander | May 15, 2008 7:42 PM