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0 pointstptacek14y ago0 comments

While Andrew Sullivan was writing his blog under The Atlantic's masthead, he regularly quoted Stratfor. Andrew Sullivan is a tool, was a tool long before he wrote for The Atlantic, and no longer writes for the Atlantic.

Apart from Andrew Sullivan's blog, I found exactly one other instance of Stratfor on The Atlantic (except articles either talking about Stratfor being hacked or articles talking about Stratfor being a joke): in James Fallows' blog, once.

My conclusion is that The Atlantic does not happily quote from Stratfor's "analysis material".

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ajays14y ago

A quick Google search confirms your claim, at least for his new blog on The Daily Beast: https://www.google.com/search?q=stratfor+site:andrewsullivan...

fpp14y ago

Very informative - I do recall to have seen quite some reference to Stratfor on the Atlantic, sometimes also just mirroring their opinions on some subjects without mentioning them, but can't recall if those where all from one person.

Nevertheless what checking on Google confirms once more how mediocre the results there have become, as Google seemingly does not differentiate between content, asides or widgets.

Hence you get dozens / hundreds of "Stratfor joke" results for pages on the Atlantic that have nothing to do with it.

Bug or feature - you decide ;-)

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