Tag Archive 'San Francisco Chronicle'

Last gasp of the old media *UPDATED*

Bookworm on Nov 02 2008 | Filed under: Marriage, Media matters

Do you think it’s coincidence that the Sunday before Prop. 8 formally goes before California voters, the SF Chron runs an article about a lesbian couple’s wedding that would be perfectly suitable for a saccharine Barbara Cartland romance?  I probably wouldn’t have noticed or cared about this little subliminal push for its readers to vote [...]

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An article about Islam most amazing for what it doesn’t say

Bookworm on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized

I already knew that UC Berkeley was going to host a “scholarly” conference aimed at reconstructing Islamophobia. The promotional material, complete with the names of radical Islamist speakers, made it pretty clear that the conference’s focus would be on whitewashing Islam, as opposed to addressing a canker in one of the world’s major religions. [...]

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