“What I once loved about journalism went missing some time ago and seems to have resurfaced as the driving force of the blogosphere: a high-spirited, irreverent, swashbuckling, lances-to-the-ready assault on the status quo. While mainstream journalists are tucked inside their newsroom cubicles deciphering management’s latest ‘tidy desk’ memo, bloggers are building bonfires and handing out virtual leaflets along America’s Information Highway.”- Kathleen Parker, Orlando Sentinel.
THE LIE THAT WON’T QUIT: “Visits by Israeli officials usually involve intense security, and none is more controversial than Mr Sharon, who has presided over the reoccupation of Palestinian towns and cities and the Jenin atrocities as Prime Minister.” – The Independent, yesterday. (My italics.)
The Dish 