[malilink] A CONTEST MORE ABOUT BOMBAST THAN NEWS

From: Amadou O. Wane (wane@strategisconsulting.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 19:32:14 EDT


A CONTEST MORE ABOUT BOMBAST THAN NEWS
Caryn James, New York Times, 7/17/02
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/arts/television/17NOTE.html

If last week was police brutality week on "Connie Chung," it was
Muslims-usurping-America week on "The O'Reilly Factor." On three of his
four shows (a guest host handled Friday), Mr. O'Reilly tried to trump up
controversy by finding cases in which Islam seemed to intrude on his idea
of American life. "A California school district wants children to behave
like Muslims -- wait'll you hear this," he teased before a segment about a
school that had children role-play to learn about Islam.

On another night, he called it "an unbelievable situation" that a
university reading list included a book about the Koran. "Is it an
indoctrination into the religion?" he asked the professor who assigned the
book, and called Islam "our enemies' religion." In his self-proclaimed
"no-spin zone," he is spinning furiously all the time...

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