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How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by rdl »

tptacek wrote: post #10
rdl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and GQ have really surprised me with the quality of their reporting over the past few years, in areas like national security where I would not have expected them to cover anything. They may have some liberal bias, but not ezcessively so; especially on a military embed, they are being fee information from "authorities", so if being biased but honest journalists makes them more questioning o…

Vanity Fair has a very serious team of people doing long-form narrative journalism, having laid claim to much of the best talent from the late '90s-era Atlantic Monthly. Unfortunately, the magazine itself is an unreadable mess of advertising and perfume samples.

This is why god gave us Instapaper.

Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by daydream »

forgot_password wrote: post #9

IMHO: The printer friendly version isn't particularly easy to read. Go here: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-stoner-arms-de...

Also, the name of the author isn't anywhere on the printer-friendly version of the page. I had to go to the full version to find it. I wonder if that's intentional? I can't see how it would be, but it seems like a huge oversight.

Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by steve-howard »

I'll admit, I read the first couple pages' worth then skipped towards the ends. This bothered me:

"An ATF agent posing as an arms dealer spent weeks trying to wheedle Diveroli into selling arms. Diveroli refused, but he couldn't resist bragging about his exploits; as agents recorded his every word, he talked about hunting alligators and hogs in the Everglades with a .50-caliber rifle. Finally, the ATF agent lured Diveroli to a meeting, asking him to bring along a gun so they could go shooting together. Diveroli didn't bring a weapon — he knew that would constitute a felony. But the ATF agent, who had thoughtfully brought along a gun of his own, handed Diveroli a Glock to try out."

Sounds exactly like entrapment to me. Guy didn't want to break the law, but the LEO brought along an extra gun just to incriminate him.

Re: How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

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Post by kwis »

tptacek wrote: post #10
rdl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and GQ have really surprised me with the quality of their reporting over the past few years, in areas like national security where I would not have expected them to cover anything. They may have some liberal bias, but not ezcessively so; especially on a military embed, they are being fee information from "authorities", so if being biased but honest journalists makes them more questioning o…

Vanity Fair has a very serious team of people doing long-form narrative journalism, having laid claim to much of the best talent from the late '90s-era Atlantic Monthly. Unfortunately, the magazine itself is an unreadable mess of advertising and perfume samples.

> having laid claim to much of the best talent from the late '90s-era Atlantic Monthly.

Thank you for answering a question I'd had for some years now, as to how VF became a source of serious long-form journalism.

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Post by bugsy »

kwis wrote: post #15
tptacek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vanity Fair has a very serious team of people doing long-form narrative journalism, having laid claim to much of the best talent from the late '90s-era Atlantic Monthly. Unfortunately, the magazine itself is an unreadable mess of advertising and perfume samples.

> having laid claim to much of the best talent from the late '90s-era Atlantic Monthly. Thank you for answering a question I'd had for some years now, as to how VF became a source of serious long-form journalism.

Ah, I wondered why The Atlantic had taken a bit of a hit the last few years, they are still pretty great but back then they were amazing.
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