Backspin

On Oct. 23, Charlie Brooker, a columnist at The Guardian, called for someone to assassinate

The Sept. 2004 Reader’s Digest (page 142) has an expose on the media manipulating photographs

The Chicago Sun-Times has an staff editorial today castigating the UN for employing Hamas members:

– William Raspberry, Washington Post: The explosion of the Internet leaves us, in effect, with

RFI (Radio France Internationale) has an interesting Mideast lexicon: 1) A settlement: un colon (a

The all-important Knesset debate and vote on Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan is available live (untranslated)

The NY Times’ Thomas Friedman has this to say about Ariel Sharon’s internal opposition: Mr.

Hafez Assad may be dead, but his cult of personality is still very much alive.

A recent cartoon by Kevin Kallagher of the Baltimore Sun highlights the Mideast “cycle of

Canadian Professor Mohamed Elmasry is the latest Islamic personality to come under scrutiny for incitement.

The BBC reports on Hamas’ execution of Hassan Musallamit, who was accused of providing Israel

Dan Abrams of MSNBC challenged the media to start using the word “terror” in coverage

From NY Sun — Columbia Abuzz Over Underground Film: At a history class, a professor

The headline: ‘Israelis shoot Palestinian on way to mosque’ What actually happened?

In today’s Jerusalem Post, journalist and commentator Tom Gross suggests that the international ‘media intifada’

In its ongoing commitment to limit Palestinian civilian casualties, the IDF has developed another non-lethal

Today’s big news is in the UK, where Abu Hamza al Masri (aka Imam Hook)