So far this month at Media Manners we’ve celebrated World Press Freedom Day 2012, examined the U.S. military’s decision to discharge a Marine for anti-Obama Facebook comments and tracked the blooming of a possible new era for journalists in Burma, among other items from the world of news and media. But a few interesting nuggets [...]
Archive for the ‘Bigotry’ Category
Mid-month Media News Round-up
Posted in Bigotry, Censorship, Free Speech, Media News, Press Freedom, Uncategorized on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Self-Proclaimed Constitutionalists Who Don’t Understand The Constitution
Posted in Bigotry, Conservatives, Constitution, Islamism, Media News, Politics, Religious Extremism, Republicans, Tea Party, War and Terror on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, at the dubiously named Values Voter Summit, former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich told an enraptured conservative crowd that America needed a new federal law banning Islamic sharia law from infiltrating the country’s judicial system. Of course, Gingrich seems oblivious to the fact that America already has such a law on [...]
The Would-Be Quran-Burning Pastor and the Media Who Loves Him
Posted in Bigotry, Free Speech, Islamism, Media News, News Entertainment, Politics, Religious Extremism, War and Terror on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The uproar stirred by Pastor Terry Jones’ plans to burn 200 copies of the Quran today as some Orwellian commemoration of 9/11 has proved three things to be true: 1) Jones, a previously unknown evangelist from Florida, has pulled off perhaps the single greatest publicity stunt in the modern history of the 24/7 news cycle. He [...]
Selling Fear: Glenn Beck’s Dummy Campaign to “Restore America”
Posted in Bigotry, Conservatives, News Entertainment, Politics, Religious Extremism, Tea Party on August 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One can be forgiven if they find Fox News demagogue and propagandist Glenn Beck’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial today offensive. After all, misappropriating the name of MLK and all the dreams he fought for is an egregious act, to be sure. So too is Beck’s penchant for fear-mongering. And that’s what today’s “Restore America” [...]
The Rise Of Fashionable Bigotry
Posted in Bias, Bigotry, Constitution, Free Speech, Politics, Republicans, Tea Party on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Free expression means many things. No government censorship. The right to protest. But it doesn’t afford anyone protection against rebuke. Yet whenever a public figure expresses contemptible views, we find them later bitching and moaning that their First Amendment rights are somehow being violated once criticism finds their door. Of course, if your part of the [...]
