United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Fitna as "offensively anti-Islamic" and issued the press release that follows (via memeorandum): I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of Geert Wilders’ offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here. I…
Category: Media
Fitna
I watched Fitna, the short anti-Islam film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ that’s been in the news lately. Wilders was not able to get the film shown on television in The Netherlands and then was unable to show it on at FitnaTheMovie.com due to Network Solutions’ interference. Nevertheless, it’s out in the wild now and…
Kos-ites on Strike. Web a Better Place?
How could the answer to that question be anything but a resounding "Yes!", you ask? Well, it seems it’s the more sane writers at Kos that are on strike, which necessarily leaves only the dregs of the Internet still "working"* there. "Alegre" says: I’ve put up with the abuse and anger because I’ve always believed…
Women in the Media
Two recent articles about the way women work and are portrayed in the media caught my attention. The contrast deserves an eye, I think. First, John Hawkins has a really interesting article up in which he interviews 5 female bloggers of conservative mind about their experiences working in Internet media. One common theme: Female bloggers…
Wikipedia’s Authority
ValleyWag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry press, outed Jimmy Wales, founder and driving force behind Wikipedia, over the weekend for using his position as head of the online encyclopedia to "encourage" editing of his lover’s profile in the site’s database. There are plenty of details about, no need to dwell on them here. …
Miss America Now a Crass Boor
Scanning the DirectTV guide last night I decided to switch on the Miss American pageant just in time for the winnowing down to the final 10 contestants. As one who despises Survivor and other so-called "reality" shows I was unpleasantly surprised to see the six young ladies being eliminated called out and told goodbye American…
Self-Important Mudslingers
Fred Thompson, straggling behind the Republican pack as he has been in recent weeks, has not attracted as much negative attention from the liberal crowd as the other, more popular candidates. But while he’s still ing 4th place, Thompson is polling reasonably well in South Carolina with 16% of the vote. That’s enough to get…
Is the Times A-Changing?
The NY Times recently brought William Kristol onto its editorial pages and the uber-geniuses on the left fairly fell into heart palpitations at the news. The hatred that liberals so often express against anything conservative is as visceral as it is vicious and the Kristol case is consistent with that kind of caustic commentary. It’s…
The MSM’s Staggering Stupidity
Read Eugene Volokh’s post and be stupified by Ms. Magazine’s cowardly decision not to run the ad he highlights.
Fox News Vetoes Paul
Don Surber says that Fox is in the right for not allowing Ron Paul’s participation in the final pre-primary debate in New Hampshire. His justification? The fact that Paul’s fans “stuff every online poll on the Internet”. Whoop-ti-doo. First, polls are a joke anyway, particularly in a close election cycle like this one. Nothing is…