Dear Sir,
          I am amazed and baffled that you would publish a review of Blinded By The Right by David Brock
that was written by a man mentioned in the text of the book, a gentleman that worked for a magazine
(American Spectator) that Brock discredits in the book as a former employee. As someone who is
both a critic (for the Los Angeles Weekly and New Times as well as The Daily Variety, San Francisco
Bay Guardian, Village Voice and Boston Phoenix) and a performer (in films and as a 25-year veteran
of rock bands), this is no different than me raving about a particular work, that, fancy that, I was a
member of its cast, or wrote/played its songs.

And give myself endless huzzahs and kudos. In this instance, you are basically pre-ordaining a
bad review for Brock's book by having an adversary of his, one that he name-checked. That is
an identical action--Either you are completely negligent in your duties or this is the preferred result.
In both cases, it's a sad reflection on the state of journalism today.

I've written three reviews this week for three different magazines and can stand behind all of them
without a whiff of conflict of interest--you cannot make that claim. As the late John Lennon once asked,
''how do you sleep at night?"

Johnny Angel
Los Angeles, CA.