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| Steyn: Why abduct us? We cede our values for free |
| 2006-09-04 |
| Did you see that video of the two Fox journalists announcing they'd converted to Islam? The larger problem, it seems to me, is that much of the rest of the Western media have also converted to Islam, and there seems to be no way to get them to convert back to journalism. Consider, for example, the bizarre behavior of Reuters, the once globally respected news agency now reduced to putting out laughably inept terrorist propaganda. A few days ago, it made a big hoo-ha about the Israelis intentionally firing a missile at its press vehicle and wounding its cameraman Fadel Shana. Shana was posed in an artful sprawl in a blood-spattered shirt. But it had ridden up and underneath his undershirt was spotlessly white, like a summer-stock Julius Caesar revealing the boxers under his toga. What's stunning is not that almost all Western media organizations reporting from the Middle East are reliant on local staff overwhelmingly sympathetic to one side in the conflict -- that's been known for some time -- but the amateurish level of fakery that head office is willing to go along with. Down at the other end of the news business, meanwhile, one finds items like this snippet from the Sydney Morning Herald: "A 16-year-old girl was tailed by a car full of men before being dragged inside and assaulted in Sydney's west last night, police say . . . "The three men involved in the attack were described to police as having dark 'mullet-style' haircuts." |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 Agreed, Old Patriot. It's a dreadful hairstyle. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-09-04 22:30 |
| #3 Leave those fish out of this! I don't know, Zenster, mullets STINK! The rest of it's pretty well right on. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-09-04 21:45 |
| #2 almost all Western media organizations reporting from the Middle East are reliant on local staff overwhelmingly sympathetic to one side in the conflict Indeed they are. Would that this was the only problem. Shall we add: How American academiaÂ’s deluge of self-loathing devolves from: 1) Falsely assigning a zero-sum equation to capitalism 2) Blind adherence to a Puritan Christian heritage that exalts altruism 3) Their same detestation of ego and all forms of enlightened self-service 4) Intense hatred of independent thought and the indispensable nature of creativity But, even so, it's quite a leap to omit the most pertinent fact and leave the impression the Sydney constabulary are combing the city for mullets. Leave those fish out of this! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-04 02:57 |
| #1 Fixed ideas are anathema to Western Civilization. Eventually, our politicians will have to settle the issue of set core values, and base our Constitution on same. Our treatment of the internal Muslim menace, does not reflect an appropriate balance of liberty and security. They need to be kept on a tight leash, with a choke hold. To a Muslim, indulgence means: jihad terror license. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-04 00:59 |