http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/09/naomi-klein-the-shock-doctrine-the-rise-of-disaster-capitalism/ Where the world comes together Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:38:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/09/naomi-klein-the-shock-doctrine-the-rise-of-disaster-capitalism/#comment-464 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:14:57 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/09/naomi-klein-the-shock-doctrine-the-rise-of-disaster-capitalism/#comment-464 28 October 2007 With thanks to David Mitchell OWN for calling this to our attention. <strong>The business press and me: a case of unrequited love Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used</strong> Naomi Klein October 25, 2007 ... When I get worried about inadvertently fueling the disaster complex, I take comfort in the response the book has elicited from the world’s leading business journalists. That’s where I learn that the very notion of disaster capitalism is my delusion - or, as Otto Reich, former adviser to President George Bush, told BBC Business Daily, it is the work “of a very confused person”. Many publications have seen fit to assign business journalists to review the book. And why not? They are the experts. Unabashed fans of the late free-market evangeliser Milton Friedman, these are our primary purveyors of the idea that ballooning corporate profits are on the verge of trickling down to the citizens of the world in the form of freedom and democracy. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2198483,00.html" rel="nofollow">More</a> 28 October 2007
With thanks to David Mitchell OWN for calling this to our attention.
The business press and me: a case of unrequited love
Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used
Naomi Klein
October 25, 2007
… When I get worried about inadvertently fueling the disaster complex, I take comfort in the response the book has elicited from the world’s leading business journalists. That’s where I learn that the very notion of disaster capitalism is my delusion - or, as Otto Reich, former adviser to President George Bush, told BBC Business Daily, it is the work “of a very confused person”.
Many publications have seen fit to assign business journalists to review the book. And why not? They are the experts. Unabashed fans of the late free-market evangeliser Milton Friedman, these are our primary purveyors of the idea that ballooning corporate profits are on the verge of trickling down to the citizens of the world in the form of freedom and democracy. More

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