A week ago, the New York Times (that paper I love to hate) ran a rather interesting 10-pager entitled “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” The author, Robin Marantz Henig draws on a few examples from real life and pop culture–young people trying to make a living from blogging, haha, remaining “untethered to permanent homes”–to set […]
Month: August 2010
In an article entitled “Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists” (a fact which I don’t particularly doubt), NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston claims that the debate over Park51 has become the “number 1 topic” in recent days on jihadi forums online. According to Evan Kohlmann, whom Temple-Raston interviewed for the story: It is their sense that […]
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This isn’t fear, this is hate.
Not too long ago, at the late end of a conference day in some faraway country, I was having a beer with a journalist whose work (and choice of journalistic employers) I respect. Palestine being much the topic of the day, our conversation started there and quickly evolved into media bias and American perceptions of […]