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Gregg Easterbrook
American
Author
About
Me
People
Think
World
You
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You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
Gregg Easterbrook
Good
You
World
Mind
Whatever
Would
Would-Be
Some
Could
Part
Like
Spontaneous
Know
Read
Blog
Blogs
Diaries
Diary
Your
Theory
Pops
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
Gregg Easterbrook
History
You
Fears
Live
Christian
Guess
Back
Unless
No-One
Stereotypes
Involving
Identity
Persecution
Revived
Being
China
Far
Now
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
Gregg Easterbrook
Me
Think
Punishment
Fired
Fitting
Did
ESPN
Then
But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
Gregg Easterbrook
Life
Today
Good
News
People
World
Live
Every
String
Everywhere
Bad
Seem
Bad Thing
Cable
Like
Disasters
Most
Fairly
Makes
Coverage
Endless
Just
Happening
Places
Us
Showing
Thing
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
Gregg Easterbrook
Writing
Bad
Criticized
About
Writer
Mainly
Wrote
Felt
Controversy
Whole
Deserved
Thinker
Started
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Gregg Easterbrook
You
Risks
People
Chasing
Nothing
Help Others
Heroic
Other
Others
Those
Out
Run
About
Take
Qualities
Although
Around
Accepting
Ball
Go
May
While
Themselves
Fortitude
Show
Help
Million
I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
Gregg Easterbrook
Me
Made
Mistakes
Down
Some
Taking
Stuff
Dealing
Behaved
Them
Poorly
Whole
Thing
Starting
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
Gregg Easterbrook
Entertainment
Sports
Example
Think
Football
Form
Use
Professional
Professional Sports
Fundamentally
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
Gregg Easterbrook
Day
Fears
Think
Stereotypes
Most
Involving
Identity
Exist
Persecution
Activate
Now
Thing
Present
Appreciate
Jewish
Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
Gregg Easterbrook
People
Back
Faces
Come
Sort
Inevitably
Up
Blow
Going
Things
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
Gregg Easterbrook
Book
Gift
Face
Before
Nice
Guards
Football
Pictures
Were
Very
Done
Little
Company
Illustrated
Actually
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
Gregg Easterbrook
Day
Pressure
Ran
Disappeared
Times
Behave
Same
Human
Human Beings
Story
Poorly
Beings
Evening
Early
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
Gregg Easterbrook
Day
Memory
Generation
People
Fear
Better
Those
More
Better Now
Powerful
Understand
References
Historical
Persecution
Just
Much
Now
Why
Present
Jewish
Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
Gregg Easterbrook
Saying
Thoughts
People
Pure
Own
Embarrassing
Run
Would
Posting
Something
Risk
Individual
Wrong
Institutions
Still
Doing
Bloggers
Same
Just
Who
Now
Harm
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