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Journalist?
The lead says that Klein is a journalist, and yet there is very little here to indicate an actual journalism career, aside from some early post college stuff. Indeed, the section on her journalism career covers her work as an author, and makes no mention of journalism. Is there any reason why we call her a journalist at all, surely she is known for her books, not for her brief stint as a magazine editor? Bonewah (talk) 19:33, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- It is strange that under "Career in journalism" it just lists books she's written, but I think her work at the Globe and Mail and "This Magazine" might qualify her as a journalist, but it's not really clear what she did at the Globe and Mail. Is being an editor the same as being a journalist? I'm not sure of the exact definition. At the very least I think the article should name her a journalist after "author" and "activist" since she is clearly better known as those two, not "journalist, author and activist" as it is now. TastyCakes (talk) 21:10, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- Why say she is a journalist at all, if the most we can say is that she might have done some journalism work early on? Look at it this way, if she had a waitress job while in college we wouldnt say "Author, journalist, waitress" would we? I think we should only identify her for what she is known for, not some incidental stuff that (may or may not have) happened early on. Bonewah (talk) 16:45, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not familiar with Klein's journalism, if indeed there is any. She is an occasional columnist for magazines such as The Nation, and perhaps that is what an editor meant by journalist. Unless somebody can say for certain that her journalism was significant, I agree with Bonewah that it should be removed from the lede. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 19:11, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- I'm fine with removing the word "journalist" from the lead. "Author" is a better description that we should retain. LotLE×talk 21:45, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not familiar with Klein's journalism, if indeed there is any. She is an occasional columnist for magazines such as The Nation, and perhaps that is what an editor meant by journalist. Unless somebody can say for certain that her journalism was significant, I agree with Bonewah that it should be removed from the lede. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 19:11, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Similar leftist background
The article said that Naomi Klein's husband came from "a similar leftist background" - which is quite inaccurate since the Lewis family has always been staunchly anti-communist while that was not the case for Klein's family. I think that this is an important distinction to make between the two families and because it shows the influence of the Lewis's on Klein's thinking. There is a difference between being a communist and being of the anti-communist left. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.84.175 (talk) 00:52, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Right, it might be similar if you are far right, but it's not similar if you are left. :) Changed it. --OpenFuture (talk) 08:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
New Climate Change Book?
Apparently according to Democracy Now! Klein is writing a new book on climate change.
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She’s writing a new book on climate change and the climate change deniers. Naomi, take it from there.
NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah, I mean, the book is not about the deniers, but it does get into it, because I started trying to understand these dramatic drops in belief that climate change is real.
Should we add something about it in the article? --CartoonDiablo (talk) 23:45, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Criticisms?
Where is the criticisms section? Ive read a huge amount of criticism about Klein from left and right, isnt it usually wikipedia policy to have criticism sections on a popular thinker like this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.126.25.46 (talk) 22:12, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- Good question! A criticism section is sorely missing. Another thing, I think that there are too many quotes from reviews of her books - The Shock Doctrine has its own detailed article where they belong. Who will pick up the glove and fix the article? Bazuz (talk) 13:16, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- It is kinda hard to criticize a person. :-) Her books have their own section. I guess something could be made out of those? You can pick up the glove. :) --OpenFuture (talk) 14:17, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- Point taken :) What I meant, of course, is criticism of her theories and philosophy, not her as a person. Bazuz (talk) 00:05, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- She doesn't have much of that. Her books are just a collection of seemingly any sort of anti-capitalist argument she can find. There isn't much coherent philosophy as a base. So a summary of criticism against the books could work, if you can make one that isn't WP:SYN. --OpenFuture (talk) 04:04, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
New work
Capitalism vs. the Climate; What the right gets - and the left doesn't - about the revolutionary power of climate change. by Naomi Klein November 9, 2011. This article appeared in the November 28, 2011 edition of The Nation (pages 11-21). 141.218.36.56 (talk) 23:38, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
resource, The Progressive interview
A Progressive Interview with Naomi Klein by Christopher D. Cook, in the December 2011/January 2012 issue