Ignored the greater cultural context of Hughes's work.
Oliver Willis' first Media Matters item "Laura Bush likes Langston Hughes; why doesn't James Taranto?" calls the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto for Red-baiting. We think a little time spent with Hughes' works can help to remedy even the tightest of collars, the farthest-flung spray of spittle and many, if not all, of the problems common to those so blind that they will not see. You see, Taranto's not so much ignoring the greater cultural context of Hughes' work as he is simply misrepresenting it. As Hughes himself once said, "Culture, they say, is a two-way street."
posted in weblogs on May 26, 2004 12:04 PM | t (1)
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