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Last night’s show featured in its opening segment a brilliant capsule presentation of the current Gaza conflict and the way in which it has been presented in the media.
Cutting through the heaps of hysteria, blather and partisanship, Stewart in under 5 minutes cut to the very heart of the matter without pomp or pretense.
It put [...]

all of the journalistic words have been, are being, said already.

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to me, there’s only one thing worth saying on the journalistic side:
24 israelis have been killed by rocket or mortar attacks from gaza, ever.
more than 300 palestinians have been killed by the israeli blitzkrieg in gaza in the past 2 days.
more than 3,300 palestinians have been killed by the israeli military in gaza since 2000.
and it needs to be said over and over and over again.

beyond the journalistic. words aren’t worth much, or are everything.

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Tom Paxton, born in Illinois, wrote a song called “What Did You Learn in School Today?” satirizing our country’s political education.
Here’s the final verse:
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
I learned that our government must be strong
It’s always right and never wrong
Our leaders are the finest men
So we elect them [...]

The deadline is swiftly approaching for readers to submit their ideas for the next Forward 50.
So why not readers, send in your favorite people to be added to the list and reviewed for the next round of Forward 50 before Friday, October 17th to forward50@forward.com.
The Forward 50 has come to resemble an annual snapshot [...]

When I lived in New York, I had the joy of being part of the Beyond the Pale crew, joining Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark as a contributing host from time to time. Beyond the Pale has an interesting history. The show began when the station, WBAI, recognized that they needed to do more [...]

If y’all don’t know this yet, in the media biz, there are “seven dirty words,” that you aren’t allowed to use as part of what the Federal Communications Commission calls “indecency regulations” in American broadcasting. The late comedian George Carlin was well known for his monologue “Filthy Words,” which added fuel to the fire, and [...]

If y’all didn’t already know about the Jewish Channel, you should check it out.
Here’s one clip of former Forward Arts and Culture Editor, Alana Newhouse, now Editor of Nextbook (yup, if y’all didn’t know yet, now you know! Alana’s now the new Editor-in-Chief of Nextbook.) chatting it up with producer and author Abigail [...]

Oy, the false ads attacking Obama are making their claim on the airwaves. Wanna do something about it?
Here are two ways you can — they’re not the most sexy or wild, but damn if they don’t have an impact.
Donate to MoveOn to help them run this ad condemning McCain for running false attack ads:

And [...]

The Christian Science Monitor has an article out this week by Patrik Jonsson discussing how “Conversions to Judaism among African-Americans are growing in a way that could affect the presidential election.”
Jonsson writes of a “black conversion movement,” portrayed as a recent trend of African-Americans becoming Jews by choice that reflects a particular moment in Black-Jewish [...]

Sadly, I wasn’t able to make it out to the National Conference for Media Reform this past weekend, but I just finished listening to Dan Rather’s speech there, and had to share his powerful words. Check it out below, and if you need a bigger fix, there’s more at the Video Newsroom for the conference. [...]