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Meat the Press (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Nov. 11, 2006 -- For at least five years, I've been writing a media column for Veg News magazine. A media column? In a veggie mag? Well, while reading Derrick Jensen's latest book, "Endgame," I came across a passage that effectively explains this curious arrangement.

Jensen tells of how the New York Times, after 9/11, published, "profiles of people killed in the attack on the Word Trade Center." Through these profiles (which were syndicated throughout the country) readers learned, for example of the "efficient executive" who "never forgot the attention to spit and polish, in his work or play," and a top stockbroker: a "prankster with a heart" who'd "pull up next to you in his Porsche-a 911-flip the bird, grin, and take off in the wind." Jensen's reaction is what I wish to share with you:

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