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Wednesday Crib Sheet: Newspaper Guild Endorses #OWS?

– AP scolds reporters for Tweeting about OWS arrests. – Did the Newspaper Guild just endorse #OWS? Sure sounds like it. Guild launches online forum for journalists covering protests 09 Nov 2011 Covering the Occupation Movement can be hazardous. A

Why Is the Media Glossing Over Child Rape?

Poynter delves into the media’s insistence to label the Penn State child rape and alleged underage sex trafficking scandal as a “sex scandal.” Memo to headline writers: Child sex abuse is not a ‘sex scandal’ Spurred by Xeni Jardin’s tweet

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part III)

A continuation of the review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide Read Part I and Part II here. Victims in the West In addition to additional Muslim reformers, the book covers several other cases of

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part II)

A continuation of the review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide Read Part I here. Harsh Reality The hopes of Muslim reformers put them sharply at odds both with present-day reality and age-old Islamic conventions.

Seeing Real Life Sharia In Action (Part I)

Review of: Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws are Choking Freedom Worldwide “Apostasy is, in principle, subject to sharia hudud rules, which means that the punishment–death–is believed to be fixed by divine order and not subject to judicial discretion…,” write

The Cheat Sheet, November 4: #Occupy Jail Cells

Tune in today and watch more Occupy protesters being arrested. Our own Occupy rap sheet continues to expand. At least 15 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Thursday after marching on Goldman Sachs to deliver an “indictment” of the financial

#Occupy Says: "We Are All Scott Olsen." Agreed!

Scott Olsen is the ex-Marine and Iraq War veteran who was injured in the riot instigated by Occupy Oakland on Oct. 25. The Occupy Wall Street movement and its institutional patrons are using the incident to rally support, declaring: “We