. . . because MSM outlets like the LA Times will be revived from their flatline status and empowered to dispense the party line and keep a lid on the truth.
Barack Obama, Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers were all at the big dinner for Rashid Khalidi.
We don’t have to wait for election day for things to get grim and sinister.
Do you have any doubt about who did this?
. . . but the administration of George Washington University wants them to apologize anyway. For what?
This smear-somebody-and-then-demand-an-apology tactic seems to be catching on. Is there any more foul way to engage in public discourse?
Two thought-provoking posts - one from Dean Barnett and one from Hugh - at Hugh Hewitt’s blog this evening. Respectively, they deal with the lastest blow to The New Republic’s stature as one of America’s premier opinion journals, and the battle between Apple’s itunes and Rhapsody for the older demographic.
These subjects are disparate and shouldn’t be treated in the same post. Plus, I’m beat after a long day. It’s 12:30 now. Prep for the semester’s first blues-history lecture. A Jazz from Bloomingtom board meeting. Shopping for and installing new multimedia software for the new laptop. Some administrative stuff for Mrs. Q’s salon.
Let me say this to get my - and your - thought processes started. With regard to TNR and in particular this Scott Beauchamp debacle and editor Franklin Foer’s handling of it, it’s of a piece with the whole east-coast, journalism-is-a-sacred-calling / the-establishment-must-always-be-regarded-sceptically-except-when-it-is-us mentality that we see in examples such as Newsweek’s recent cover story on the supposed minority of the scientific community that’s sceptical of global-warming claims. Hugely agenda driven. Big-time issues with”powerful corporations.” And so on. As I say, I will properly deal with this in a post dedicated to this matter.
With regard to the HH post about Apple and Viacom vying for the over-40 demographic, let me start with this, and, of course, I’ll get into it in proper depth soon: Maybe I look like some kind of way-off-the-radar-screen blip to industry trend-watchers and even cultural-observation pundits, but I take my music seriously. I don’t mean just as some kind of it’s-all-about-me consumer with little earplugs glued to the sides of my head and tastes that grow more persnickety by the day. No. I take music’s role in the development and heritage of our culture - any culture - so seriously that I think abandoning the field of what downloadable music is going to be made available in cyberspace to a bunch of twits who think American music started with Depeche Mode or Jewel or what the f— ever is dangerous for national security reasons.
As I say, it’s late. I hope it doesn’t take too long to get back to each of these subjects in the detail they deserve.
Cinnamon Stillwell has two great blog posts this week - one on the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love and one on a Washington Post / Newsweek - moderated panel discussion on getting along with Islam.
Now, here’s an interesting situation. What is going on when, in the kind of hostage situation where we can often realistically believe that the captive is being forced to spout the radical Islamist line, we have the history of this guy. How are we to digest his rantings if they’re a lot like what he was spewing forth under the guise of objective journalism for the BBC?
Little Green Footballs has the rundown of the major world media outlets that omitted what the shooter said in the murder of the Turkish-Armenian writer
