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2005-03-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Media and Medievalism By Robert D. Kaplan

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Posted by Anonymous5089 2005-03-16 9:49:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As a subscriber to Policy Review I should post the link to them each month.

This month has 2 good articles:
IDEALISM AT THE U.N.
UNDERSTANDING JIHAD

DEMOGRAPHICS AND THE CULTURE WAR helps explain the EU.

and the book review: "Out, Damned Lout" is a must to mail to the leaders of your churches.
(an out take)
This surrender, says Anderson, can be seen in any number of the public spaces that once were the domain of Middle England. A tragic example is the church: âThe c of e was the Established Church and the church of the established values. . . . There, until the 1970s you could hear the voice of moderate middle-class values in Received Pronunciation perhaps a retired major and a local solicitor as sidesmen and the gpâs wife reading the lesson.â Now, he says, the Anglican church is just another liberal mouthpiece; the ad-libbed intercessions are âcareless, second-rate toshâ; and sentimentality â anathema to old Middle England â is the âcentral characteristic of the entire service.â Nobody protests this. For that matter, nobody even turns off his cell phone."

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-16 10:42:01 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:42:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like good stuff, but a tad bit long, doncha think? I did save a copy, and will read it on the train, sometime soon.... Will the author tell us how to limit the power of the media?

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-16 11:01:47 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:01:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent article. Goes well with one that Austin Bay linked. The media have really become an unaccountable and unrestrained power. I just hope blogs do them in soon.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 3:55:17 PM|| 2005-03-16 3:55:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Today is media day in the 'sphere. AP proposes alternative leads for articles

An example of the differing leads:

Traditional

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners Thursday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government.

Optional

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) Yet again, almost as if scripted, a day of hope for a new, democratic Iraq turned into a day of tears as a bloody insurgent attack undercut a political step forward.

On Thursday, just as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad were telling reporters that they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government, a suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners in the northern city of Mosul.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 5:10:23 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:10:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, and can't keep their agenda out of sight in either piece!

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-16 5:29:32 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:29:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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