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Democracy's Lights versus Autocracy's Darkness. (Written in 1977, yet applies on the Arab countries as if it was written yesterday - just put "religion" instead of "Marxism").
The disastrous defeat of June 1967 played a decisive role in forcing many intellectuals, Arabs in general and Egyptians in particular, to reexamine established concepts and to question their validity. The process did not take a sudden, dramatic turn but evolved gradually, in my case, for instance, over several years. It was helped along by the performance of the government propaganda machine in the days following the disaster. The pitiful attempts by the defeated regime to pass such a cataclysmic event off as no more than a setback, the loss of one battle in a long-term war, rang hollow in the ears of the Egyptian people. Their wounds ran too deep to be assuaged by the lying slogans launched by the regime just hours after news of the disaster broke. Among the more memorable was the use of the word "setback" to describe the complete destruction of the Eg Windsofchange.net Wednesday, July 09, 2008 The Journalist In The Hat Has A Brother Wow, you've gotta just freaking love the arrogance of the media folks...
Patterico is involved in a 'Dust-Up' at the LA Times with Marc Cooper (two friends going at it in Big Media).
They were invited to do a radio show - Which Way LA? - which you ought to listen to as well.
Patrick linked to it on his blog, and got this comment (reproduced in whole):
If you are the "competition" that the LA Times now faces for the first time, as you so ignorantly stated on WWLA (Olney caught you on that), I guess the Times can relax. Anyone who thinks even the best bloggers (which would not describe you, I dare say) are any substitute for the salaried hard work, reporting, investigation and experience of newspaper journalists is just a fool. How much of the real news on the internet comes from bloggers? By the way, that's a rhetorical question. I can't believe Olney had someone as naive as you on the show.
Comment by Sean Mitchell - 7/8/2008 @ 7:45 pm
Sean Mitchell, amazingly, writes for the LA T Windsofchange.net Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Boy, I Just Love The California Democratic Party The GOP in California have relegated themselves into a morally pure irrelevance, and the Democrats - oh, my Democrats. the San Diego Union-Tribune editorializes:
State Senate President Don ['Pistol-Packin'] Perata sure is determined to go out on a low note.
First, the termed-out Oakland Democrat launched and then scrapped a ludicrous attempt to recall a popular Republican incumbent, Sen. Jeff Denham of Merced. The only credible explanation for the effort? An investigation by the East Bay Express newspaper found that the recall allowed Perata to direct more than $280,000 in funds to his trusted consultant, his latest shifty campaign shenanigan in a career full of them.
Now Perata is once again confirming his reputation as the most fierce defender of a broken state government. Recently, he summoned representatives of various rich special interest to a meeting devoted to brainstorming on how to defeat a November ballot initiative that would reform redistricting of state legislative seats Windsofchange.net Wednesday, July 09, 2008 LEARNING TO LOVE REGULATION....Fed chairman Ben Bernanke gave his support Tuesday to the idea of regulating significant chunks of the financial industry that have mostly operated without supervision until now. Kevin Hall of McClatchy reports:When the head of the Fed... Washingtonmonthly.com Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Obama ON ACCESS HOLLYWOOD....A query from The Corner:Weird Choice [Kathryn Jean Lopez] This is not certainly not the biggest issue of the election year, but why would Barack obama let his daughters' first interview be with Access Hollywood?That's an easy... Washingtonmonthly.com Wednesday, July 09, 2008 DODGING BULLETS....On campaign conference calls, reporters who want to ask questions press *1 and are put in a queue. When their turn comes up, they get to ask their question. But David Corn reports that there are exceptions:This is not... Washingtonmonthly.com Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Obama'S BUDGET....Peter Nicholas has a front page story in the LA Times today about Barack obama's budget plans and how they probably don't add up. Fair enough — though the timing is a little odd given the A9 treatment meted... Washingtonmonthly.com Wednesday, July 09, 2008 SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS....Men are better than women at visuospatial skills. The ev psych crowd explains this with a story about men hunting wooly mammoths during the Pleistocene and therefore evolving brain structures that are highly attuned to spatial relationships. Maybe so.... Washingtonmonthly.com Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory Today TOMORROW'S CONSPIRACY THEORY TODAY....Barack obama's campaign plane had a serious problem landing in St. Louis last night:An inflatable slide in the tail cone of the plane had deployed, making control of the plane tough. "There are hydraulic lines back there,"... Washingtonmonthly.com Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Networks May Cut Coverage of Convention Citing increased costs, the major television networks "are considering curtailing coverage of the
Democratic National Convention after Monday's announcement that Sen. Barack obama will accept his party's nomination in a Denver stadium," Politico reports.The change in venue "could add hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to already cash-strapped news divisions."Said one CBS News executive: "It does add to the overall question of how the networks should cover what is a non-news event." Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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