Monthly Archives: July 2005

London

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I just got an email from my friend Rob Dixon, who lives near London (and in a 800 year old gate house). I had emailed him the day of the London terrorist attacks to check up on him, but only got a response today (he was traveling at the time and didn’t have access to email).

Rob, his wife Pam, and family, are doing fine … but one thing in his email struck me … and I thought it would bear repeating …

As a small child during the war with bombs falling all round us (we lived in Essex), I learnt at an early age that you just have to carry on. The terrorists will never win.

We will and they won’t 🙂

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News Media

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The authorities maintain that the 42-year-old blogger, Joseph E. Duncan III of Fargo, N.D., took Dylan Groene, 9, and Dylan’s sister, Shasta, 8, from their rural Idaho home shortly before their 13-year-old brother, their mother and her boyfriend were found bludgeoned to death on May 16.

– New York Times article

What is he again? The 42-year-old North Dakota man? The 42-year-old suspected killer? No, he’s the 42-year-old blogger. The 42-year-old blogger supposedly kidnapped two children and murdered their mother and her boyfriend. The blogger bludgeoned the girl’s brother to death.

– strip mining for whimsy.

(via Ryan)

This is a pretty good example of how the media paints very broad strokes on things they have an imperfect understanding of.

Another good example can be found whenever the news sources make reference to settlements in Israeli territories … they almost always refer to them as “Jewish settlements” … not “Israeli Settlements”. What makes them unique is not the fact that the residents are all jewish … but they are all Israeli.