By Marshall Saufley
Doesn’t it bother you sometimes that people you disagree with politically listen to that awful propaganda put out by their side? So how can those people, and you and those who agree with you, avoid being propagandized?
Seek the truth; be well-informed, not misled. To be well-informed, we need access to information that is accurate (factual), fair (unbiased) and balanced (presents all views supported by the evidence).
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 9:36 AM
On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan:
“The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.
(CNN) — Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will pursue a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
Breitbart posted an edited video clip of Sherrod appearing to say she discriminated against a white farmer looking for assistance. The clip showed her addressing a chapter of the NAACP.
“I will definitely do it,” she said when asked whether she was considering legal action. Sherrod made her remarks during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego, California.
The first one I ever saw was in a hayfield above a town called Suha Reka. It was right after NATO had finished bombing Serb forces in Kosovo in 1999, and I was driving through the ruined towns writing about the war crimes that had triggered the bombardment. It was a young girl who had been dead for a while, so we could smell her long before we got there. Locals said she was 16 and had been taken up there by a dozen or so Serb militiamen who had gang raped her and then cut her throat. She was mostly gristle and bone when we saw her, lying in the sun with her legs spread and a grimace on her face. The only way to tell she was female was the red nail polish on her fingers and toes.
In today’s essay, Walter Shapiro notes that more than three decades after the genocide in Cambodia, all of us are still grappling to find a larger meaning embedded in the horrors of the Killing Fields.
Decades from now when, alas, The New York Times is a distant memory and long-form reporting and writing have become synonymous with Tweets, I hope that the lonely keepers of the journalistic flame will still revere the remarkable Telex that Sydney Schanberg sent from a dying Phnom Penh on April 14, 1975.
We’ve plenty to protest about in the US, but on the streets there is no dissent. Why is our liberal mood so paralytic?
Community organiser and Chicagoan Saul Alinsky, circa 1946: ‘I love this goddamn country, and we’re going to take it back.’ Photograph: Myron Davis/Time & Life/Getty
In my middle-class neighbourhood, you can organise people around dog-walking exchanges, the crimewatch duty roster, mutual baby-sitting, earthquake preparedness and dire household emergencies. But even the most liberal-minded among us seem totally spooked by the currently toxic idea of politically organising our private economic tragedies into any form of communal resistance to Bush-Obama’s class warfare – skyrocketing unemployment, home foreclosures, bank failures, vanished investments and social service cuts that directly affect us. Politics? Ugh. Please, don’t bother me. I’d rather talk about Tony Soprano’s latest session with his leggy shrink.
By Martin Rubin
TRAVELS IN THE REICH
Edited by Oliver Lubrich
University of Chicago Press, $30, 336 pages
Although the United States had adopted the Neutrality Act in the late 1930s in response to aggressive dictators on the march, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was even more than usually acute in saying that he couldn’t ask Americans to be neutral in their hearts and minds. When it came to Nazi Germany, there was little doubt where most Americans stood, and this certainly applied to U.S. press coverage
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Roee Nahmias
A newspaper affiliated with Hezbollah accused a sixth-grade English teacher Wednesday of sympathizing with Israel because of an essay she used to teach her class.
The teacher, who works in the Christian Lebanese town of Ajaltoun, searched online for an essay on Earth Day, marked on April 22, and lit upon a paragraph written by an Israeli student. |
By KWANG-TAE KIM (AP) – 2 days ago
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea vowed Saturday to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it could even turn Seoul into a “sea of flame.”
The rival Koreas ended decades of propaganda campaigns in 2004 as their relations warmed. However, South Korea resumed radio broadcasts to North Korea last month and installed a dozen propaganda loudspeakers along the border to punish the North for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship.
by Joe Tacopino
Daily News Writer
Monday, June 7th 2010, 8:19 PM
South Korean soldiers stand guard near the South side of the border in the village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea in the demilitarized zone (DMZ).
South Korea is waging war with pop music.
After the country formally accused North Korea of launching the torpedo that sunk their warship Cheonan, South Korea has declared psychological warfare in retaliation.
Their first missive into the hermit kingdom was a pop song.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/06/07/2010-06-07_south_korea_blasts_propaghanda_pop_music_over_the_border.html#ixzz0qSdK3vjs
