Under the best of circumstances, Russia does not have a fabulous record when it comes to freedom of the press.
A new cartoon and a new crisis
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Perfect storm in the jury box
Every now and then, a reporter who doesn’t cover the religion beat shows up to cover a big news story and gets caught up in a situation that is simply awash in religious stuff. I cannot imagine how that must feel, but it has to be a little scary.
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A win for the left in Great Britain?
So speech and actions that “glorify” terror are now illegal in England, which represents a kind of victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Not knowing the language
Kudos to National Public Radio’s On the Media team for last week’s episode (available here in transcript and mp3 form) that focused in-depth on the media in the Middle East and their coverage of everything from the political situations to the violence between Muslims and Israel.
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Would Ms. Ali be safe at the Oscars?
We are getting closer and closer to the Oscars, and all kinds of people are bracing themselves for a night of political broadsides and idealistic sermons about hot social issues. It will, we are told, be a night for the Hollywood elites to be courageous and to speak up on behalf of freedom.
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Waving the white flag
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Concerning moderates and the mob
The cartoon controversy (far too weak a word at this point) is causing some interesting divisions on the right as well as the left. The debate that I think deserves the most serious news coverage concerns the role of Islamic moderates and what they do or do not believe about the freedoms of the West.
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Did you think you would live to see this?
Yes, I know that it is the newspaper of a far-right political party, a fringe group that wants strict immigration controls and has little or no mainstream role in Swedish politics.
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Not getting it, again
It’s not the first time I’ve written about The New York Times not getting it. Sadly, this is not the first time the NYT has missed it (remember the Holocaust).
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