Our famous linkfest offering readers interesting links to websites of varying opinions so they can explore the ‘sphere. Links do not not necessarily represent the viewpoints of The Moderate Voice or its writers.
STICKS AND STONES: Are bloggers just too steamed up about how the mainstream media reports the news and has it now become one, big bore? Some thoughts here.
ON THE OTHER HAND (what do you expect at TMV?) has the mainstream media been so impacted (and intimidated) by the blogo-you-know-what that they’re trying to imitate it and get in part of the action? Here is some evidence that suggests the answer is yes.
The Realities Of The Iraq War: Truthdig talked to some vets and the results are unsettling.
Oxblog (a TMV FAVORITE) Interviews Nick Cohen: A great TWO PART must read at Oxblog. Here’s the opening paragraph to the first part:
‘We’re all Hizbollah now.’ For journalist and author Nick Cohen, this slogan symbolises everything that has gone wrong with big parts of today’s British Left. Last July, some leftist protesters in London held up this placard, identifying themselves with a movement whose leader is openly anti-semitic, and whose former leader once announced ‘We are not fighting so that you may offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.’
Instead of merely opposing British or American policies and wars abroad, Cohen complains in his book What’s Left that influential and mainstream leftist have gone along with movements representing everything they are meant to be against: the ultra-right. In his own words, they have made excuses for, or sometimes sided with, a religious fanaticism that wants to ‘subjugate women, kill homosexuals, kill Jews, kill freethinkers and establish a theocratic empire.’
Read the first part of the interview HERE. And the second part HERE.
“Christianist” Terror? Is there a double standard? Do conservatives get all upset if a Muslim kills someone for religious reasons but look the other way if someone who is Christian does the same thing for the same reasons? Andrew Sullivan thinks so.
So Will The Democrats Only Be About War, War, War, War? NO. Another important theme will put the Demmies back on track to run populist campaigns.
Is The Movie “Transformers” Worth Seeing? Check out Dean Esmay..
And What About “Hairspray?” Check out aTypical Joe.
It’s That Time Again to Ask Dr. Helen about love and politics (these days in the United States love and politics don’t usually go hand in hand…).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.