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Daniel Pearl’s dad on Al Jaz English
Judea Pearl, the father of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl writes on Al Jazeera English. The thrust of his piece is an attack on Al Jaz Arabic for airing Sunni cleric Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi‘s “Sharia and Life” programme. He uses this forum to preach his new morality to millions of Arabic-speaking viewers, including Hamas operatives,…
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Great campaigning column from Rubén Rosario of the St Paul Pioneer Press…
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B@£$%cks to bowling…
I have been wading through the works of lone-bowling theorist Robert Putnam for reasons too dull to share. Putnam’s worthy, weighty tome – Bowling Alone – makes its point by the pound. Joy then to read a journalist who pops Putnam’s balloon in one short, pointy article. Step forward Nick Lemann.
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Jeremy Bowen
Stephen Pollard’s attack on Jeremy Bowen has gained some new supporters, according to the Jerusalem Post. Andrew Balcombe, chairman of the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland, has written to the chair of the BBC Trust, Dr Chitra Bharucha, following a leaked e-mail Bowen sent last month that questions Bowen’s impartiality as he appears to…