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Susan Sontag

• June 1 -- Frank Rich's Pornographic Hypocrisy
Editor Frank Rich contemptuously dismisses conservatives who dare link the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib to pornography: "The hypocrisy of those pushing this line knows few bounds." Yet the left-wing essayist Susan Sontag, so admired by Rich, made precisely the same argument in the cover story of the NYT magazine.

• May 24 -- Susan Sontag, the Times' Anti-American Essayist
The Sunday magazine gives its front page over to radical intellectual Susan Sontag's on Abu Ghraib, the same person who wrote after 9-11: "Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?"

• April 7 -- We Want Blood
Another Times reporter complains about the lack of televised war gore, quoting left-wing scholar Susan Sontag and an Al Jazeera spokesman who find the media’s portrayal of the war insufficiently bloody.