First things first: make sure you check out the exclusive Richard Landes interview over on the One Jerusalem audio page. The highlights I played on the air were less than one-third of the total material – academics, it turns out, err on the side of thoroughness – and there are entire categories of questions that you don’t get except on the full interview. The extended section on how Stockholm Syndrom is the generous explanation for why journalists carry Hamas’s water is especially brutal.
In the meantime you should obviously check out Goldstonereport.org, where they’re posting new debunkings on an almost daily basis. It would also behoove you to check out Landes’s home blogs Augean Stables and Second Draft. It’s really impressive how many different smears human rights organizations can invent without ever straying far from antisemitic canards like water poisoning, child murder, and cabalistic conspiracism. From a certain perspective it almost looks like they might be obsessed!
Now on to some site business. I think I’m going to start lightening up on the incessant Omri Ceren Show reminders and wrap ups. The routine is familiar enough by now: live radio show with news and interview highlights at 2pm on Wednesdays, exclusive full-length interview available at One Jerusalem shortly afterward. Plus MR has been getting a little too process-heavy lately. I’m beginning to worry that all the radio show posts, Watchers Council roundups, and LA event reminders are crowding out more substantive material.
Even worse, they’re preventing me from constantly reminding you that micropayment donations are the future of citizen journalism.
So I’m going to try to limit TOCS-related blogging to just one post per week, a teaser on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning about that week’s interview and news segments. I’ll trust you guys to remember to grab the full interviews on your own, since those are where the nuance and inside baseball discussions get hashed out. When that doesn’t work I’ll start dumping reminders into roundups and see if we can’t strike a happy balance.
References:
* The Omri Ceren Show on Blog Talk Radio [Official Site]
* AUDIO EXCLUSIVE :: Dr. Richard Landes — Full Interview! [One Jerusalem]
* Goldstonereport.org
* Augean Stables
* Second Draft
Related Mere Rhetoric Coverage:
* Human Rights
* United Nations
* The Omri Ceren Show
