Marvin Olasky: How Low Can Press Standards Go?
Published by Rod D. Martin August 17th, 2006 filed under Israel, Media, War on Terror, Rod D. Martin, TheVanguard.Org
Marvin Olasky on the truly unbelievable revelations of Reuters, AP and other press agencies publishing hundreds of doctored photos to impugn Israel and promote Hesbollah. Does it seem sometimes that the media is rooting for the terrorists, Saddamites, et al.? Well guess what: they are.
Needless to say, the Dan Rather-ization of the media continues on unchecked. But people are beginning to realize it, it’s beginning to sink in, and in another decade, the “old media” may well be swept away.
In the meantime, read Olasky. You need to know.
Jack Wheeler: Cuba Libre
Published by Rod D. Martin August 17th, 2006 filed under Communism, Foreign Policy/National Security, Rod D. Martin, TheVanguard.Org
There has been some fretting of late among Republicans that the death or fall of Castro would provoke a mass exodus of (conservative) Cuban-Americans from Florida, tipping this most divided of battleground states forever into the Dum column. Our own Jack Wheeler (whom the Washington Post has described as the architect of the Reagan Doctrine), describing his, er, unique trip to meet Fidel Castro shows why this — and a lot of other myths about the future of Cuba — isn’t so likely: Cubans, unlike Eastern Europeans, have been thoroughly ruined by Communism. A sad, but important, read.