(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Monday, July 29, 2002
The proprietor of a wholly unremarkable website prostrates himself at the feet of Lummox Taranto, Head Arab-baiter In Charge of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web [sic] feature, over on Romenesko's letter page. Those of us wondering the reason behind The Lummox's animus toward our Muslim brethren were wrong to call it animus. It's actually "courage." Witness/Witless: "James Taranto's amusing daily website often calls attention to stories about the Middle East and Islamic terrorist groups that other news outlets ignore, downplay, or perhaps are afraid to run, after seeing what Bin Laden supporters did to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl." Amazing.
To shamelessly invoke the awful murder of one of journalism's foremost practitioners (a secular progressive one, at that) in exalting someone's rank prejudice is really a bit much. posted by Anonymous10:25 AM
The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.