but moreso of late, alas. News broadcasts about the Middle East from the Middle East, compiled daily by Link TV's Mosaic, with translations. Especially interesting, at least from Monday's broadcasts, is how much media coverage was devoted to discussing, well, media coverage. In that vein, see the link about the Bias Bias, below.
Notice the variation from country to country in the language used to characterize events -- and then revisit Orwell's Politics and the English Language. (Scroll down, and start with the sentence that begins, "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." Plus ca change. . . .)
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