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marc
I often wonder why there seems to be so much of a consensus regarding the world's great writers. Were they really so much better than every one else or did their fame feed on itself? I also wonder why Hemingway and other great writers went to the Left Bank. Was it to learn from each other or was it so they could take turns promoting one another?
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Great writers produce great writing - Popular writers produce popular writing. The ability to find an audience and write to them.
Skill is the determining factor, however. Some people love Hemingway, some think he's a hack. Consensus, politics and luck have little to do with it. If people buy your books and like what they read - if your text inspires, motivates or teaches - someone, somewhere, will think you're a great writer.
Great writers produce great writing - Popular writers produce popular writing. The ability to find an audience and write to them.
Skill is the determining factor, however. Some people love Hemingway, some think he's a hack. Consensus, politics and luck have little to do with it. If people buy your books and like what they read - if your text inspires, motivates or teaches - someone, somewhere, will think you're a great writer.
How do Christians feel about Rupert Murdoch being the world's largest publisher of Bibles?
Babyvamp
Rupert Murdoch is the head of Zondervan, the world's largest publisher of Bibles.
Rupert Murdoch is also at the centre of a political firestorm, in which the phones of murdered teenagers phones have been hacked, police have been bribed, soldiers' families and possibly 9/11 families have been targeted. The scale of political corruption may lead all the way up to Downing Street.
What does it say when the biggest publisher of Bibles in the world is neck-deep in such corruption?
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[Rupert Murdoch] has control of a large number of media holdings, and he attempted to curry favor with said communists by ordering one of his book publishing units to release a volume of communist propaganda glorifying Deng Xiaoping, the heir to Chairman Mao.
And it gets worse still. This powerful American businessman also owns a Chinese television network called Star TV. Once it carried news programming from the BBC. But after the famous incident when communists attacked unarmed civilians in Tiananmen Square, Star TV's BBC affiliate repeatedly showed the spectacular video clip of a man facing down a tank alone. The communists complained. And the powerful American businessman â who makes a great deal of noise on these shores about being a champion of freedom and free speech and the free market â asked the BBC to stop showing it so often. But the BBC kept airing the clip and the communists kept complaining and finally the businessman ordered his Chinese network to drop the BBC news channel altogether. He insisted this was a business decision and that politics had absolutely nothing to do with it, of course â and, also, the BBC reporters really wanted to spend more time with their families. But subsequently, the supreme leader of the communists praised him for his "objective" approach to Chinese political news.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/rupert-mudoch-communist-business-ties-100609#ixzz1SYI3IVMG
[Rupert Murdoch] has control of a large number of media holdings, and he attempted to curry favor with said communists by ordering one of his book publishing units to release a volume of communist propaganda glorifying Deng Xiaoping, the heir to Chairman Mao.
And it gets worse still. This powerful American businessman also owns a Chinese television network called Star TV. Once it carried news programming from the BBC. But after the famous incident when communists attacked unarmed civilians in Tiananmen Square, Star TV's BBC affiliate repeatedly showed the spectacular video clip of a man facing down a tank alone. The communists complained. And the powerful American businessman â who makes a great deal of noise on these shores about being a champion of freedom and free speech and the free market â asked the BBC to stop showing it so often. But the BBC kept airing the clip and the communists kept complaining and finally the businessman ordered his Chinese network to drop the BBC news channel altogether. He insisted this was a business decision and that politics had absolutely nothing to do with it, of course â and, also, the BBC reporters really wanted to spend more time with their families. But subsequently, the supreme leader of the communists praised him for his "objective" approach to Chinese political news.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/rupert-mudoch-communist-business-ties-100609#ixzz1SYI3IVMG
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