The Truth Shall Set You Free

In a world where information is ubiquitous, where teachers can check a student’s work for plagiarism by a google search, it is no longer viable for mainstream news media to broadcast lies, or facts that don’t check out right.

So instead, they use two completely legit and seemingly ethical methods to brainwash, misinform, and contrive viewers’ opinions: blinds and pundits.

Al-Jazeera: Thank You!

For years, Al-Jazeera News channel has been accused of lacking in professionalism when reporting the news.

These accusations even come from professional journalists and news agencies.

Some attribute this lack of professionalism to organizational immaturity, to be remedied with experience; while others attribute it to high emotionalism and consistent bias expressed by guest speakers and in the words and tone of every news anchor and program host.

An Open Letter to ABC’s 20/20 regarding “Islam: Questions and Answers”

In light of the highly problematic portrayal of Muslims in ABC’s 20/20 September 29, 2010 episode “Islam: Questions and Answers,” a colleague of mine, Margari Hill (who is also an amazing blogger in her own right), and I wrote an open letter to the production team of the program. If you are interested in supporting this effort and endorsing this letter, please click on the link here to fill out the requested information and share with others who shared similar sentiments about the episode.

An Open Letter to ABC’s 20/20 regarding “Islam: Questions and Answers” Season 31, Episode 3

Muslims Are Confusing

It used to be that nothing made an infidel like an…well… an infidel like hearing the shout “Allahu Akbar.”
Now Muslims want us to feel happy and sympathetic when we hear them shouting the death cry. Even CNN has fell into the trap and has been re-programmed into thinking “Allah es muy Grande” somehow a good thing. At the very least, it is the method by which, along with Twitter, democracy will come to those Iranians protesting on rooftops.

What public discourse? On corporate political speech

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning political speech restrictions on corporations and unions, a chorus of voices from the Democratic Party has attacked the decision. Notably, President Obama claimed in his State of the Union address that the ruling “will open the floodgates for special interests… to spend without limit in our elections.”