Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman has been sentenced to four years in an Egyptian prison, three for “insulting Islam” and one for insulting Mubarak. Hey, remember when “Egypt” used to be synonymous with “civilization”? Yeah, me neither.
Committee to Protect Bloggers supported Kareem when he was first imprisoned, then freed by the Egyptian authorities, even creating a petition [...]
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Posted in Media on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
In an excellent essay in the Washington post, “Demise of the Foreign Correspondent,” Pamela Constable writes about the “false economy” of newspapers and television news operations cutting out foreign bureaus.
In a speech at Columbia University last week, veteran TV news anchor Walter Cronkite warned that pressure by media companies to generate increasing profits is threatening [...]
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Posted in Blogging, News on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
In an excellent essay in the Washington post, “Demise of the Foreign Correspondent,” Pamela Constable writes about the “false economy” of newspapers and television news operations cutting out foreign bureaus.
In a speech at Columbia University last week, veteran TV news anchor Walter Cronkite warned that pressure by media companies to generate increasing profits is threatening [...]
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Posted in Oregon, Publications, Travel on February 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My latest, a travel feature on Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park in the wintertime, has come out in the Los Angeles Times’ travel section. It’s titled “Cool truth about Crater Lake.”
But as magnificent and joyful as the lake is from June through September, the magic in the gold sunlight of summer and early fall pales [...]
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Posted in Publications on February 14, 2007 | No Comments »
My latest, a travel feature on Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park in the wintertime, has come out in the Los Angeles Times’ travel section. It’s titled “Cool truth about Crater Lake.” (Registration required.)
But as magnificent and joyful as the lake is from June through September, the magic in the gold sunlight of summer and early [...]
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Posted in Latin America, Leftism on February 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Universidad Central “Marta Abeu” de las Villas in Cuba is known by the nickname “Che University.” It is a bastion of true believers, dedicated to the revitalization of The Revolution. Believers they may be, but they are a new generation. Across Latin America and in fact the world, communism is hip again. And Cuba’s [...]
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Posted in Projects on February 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After almost a year of trying, Blogswana, our blogging-for-others project, is still unfunded. After some initial press coverage and a few donations, nearly three dozen grant submissions and hundreds of appeals to private donors, we still lack the funding for the project. This is especially sad since we had such great cooperation from both [...]
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Lucky for you, we’re busy working on a new Dream Teens album, as a follow up to the wildly successful, Billboard top twenty album, “Cry Havok and Let Slip the Dogs of Rock: The Dream Teens Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp,” which was also the title of a Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary of the [...]
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