Papyrus is a newsletter which is now coming from Japan which covers education and current affairs topics. Usually worth looking at. In this issue there are a lot of topics which touch on journalism and an informed press. We'll go over them in class today and next week as well. Clark
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.............................................................. now that big TV media are joining
the branches of government including the Supreme Court in being partisan
to the Republicans, the Democrats seem to have no opening to expose the
facts. My apologies that much of this may be tedious to non-Americans,
but the post-War international order is breaking down due to American
unilateralism, and the Goebbels playbook is proving again that it works.
Who but Orwell could have predicted that democracy in America would not
survive into the 21st Century? - Ed.]

* Periodical articles

Framing the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff
tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics
Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter, UC Berkeley, 27 October 2003
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml

Peace Prize Goes to Environmentalist in Kenya
"OSLO, Oct. 8 - Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an
environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and
who has campaigned for women's rights and greater democracy in her
home country, was announced the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize"
Patrick Tyler, New York Times, 9 October 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/international/africa/09nobel.html

The Verdict Is In
"Sanctions worked. Weapons inspectors worked. That is the bottom line
of the long-awaited report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. ...
nothing in the voluminous record provides Mr. Bush with the justification
he wanted for a preventive war because the weapons programs did not exist.
And as the war continues to bog down, the power of nonviolent international sanctions looks more muscular every day."
New York Times Editorial, 7 October 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/opinion/07thu1.html

The Battle of the Pump
By Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 7 October 2004
"The energy policy of President Bush and Dick Cheney is supporting the
worst Arab oil regimes and the worst trends."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/opinion/07friedman.html

Bush's Crimes
"Impeach the president? Yes. A well-documented case ties him to Abu Ghraib."
Bob Norman, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Florida, 30 November 2004
http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2004-09-30/news/norman.html

Insane reality spins the head
Jimmy Breslin, Newsday.com, 10 October 2004
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nybres104001677oct10,0,2659563.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh spills the secrets
of the Iraq quagmire and the war on terror
Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter, UC Berkeley, 11 October 2004
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/11_hersh.shtml

President Bush Unfit to Command
Yoshi Tsurumi [Bush's former professor]
Japanese Institute of Global Communications, 7 October 2004
http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/colloquium/20041007_tsurumi_president/index.html

TV channels to rubbish Kerry on eve of poll
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 12 October 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1325120,00.html

Japan mulls multicultural dawn
Sarah Buckley, BBC News Online, 5 October 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3708098.stm