Sunday, January 15, 2006
BEST AND BRAVEST
Can someone please buy Antony Loewenstein a vocabulary?
I gather strength from brave Jews ...
A truly brave Israel would end the occupation immediately.
I want to see a brave new magazine that is unafraid to challenge Australia’s underlying assumptions and those of our media elite.
Christopher Hitchens ... once forthright and challenging before power and now hectoring a grieving mother. Brave stuff, indeed.
[Mark Latham] dares to prick the Murdoch worldview. Brave stuff, indeed.
[The Fairfax press are] positioning themselves as the media company best suited to pursue the new lifestyle agenda of the 21st century. Brave stuff, indeed.
As for Hersh, he’s the best journo in the world, I reckon, other than Fisk. The amount of stories they’ve both broken over the last decades. Brave stuff.
[Norman Finkelstein is] a fine and brave man.
Accusations of bias and prejudice may get the juices going of brave cultural warriors ...
Chomsky, for example, is a true libertarian, and defends free speech for all with no exceptions, a brave act in the 21st century.
If our media doesn’t provide ample protection for these brave individuals ...
Finkelstein is a brave soul ...
The Australian media have largely decided that Iraq is in such a dire state that honest and brave reporting is simply too difficult ... The British press are a little braver.
Truly brave indy publishing is something like US-based Counterpunch,
Atrocities are being reported by the few brave journalists entering the city.
A recent letter sent by a brave Israeli, Jacob Katriel ...
If this is truly the end [of Webdiary], it’s the passing of a brave, frustrating, challenging and bold experiment.
Brave, noble Israel is vital in the “War on Terror”, or so we’re told ...
Ilan Pappe, a man I respect hugely, perhaps Israel’s bravest dissenter ...
Pappe is a brave man.
Brave, little, irrelevant Australia.
What individual, other than the bravest, will want to be chastised by Bush and his cronies?
[Robert] Pape is brave enough to state that although September 11 was a horrific event it was not unique.
The ABC needs reform. New energy, ideas and bravery would be a good start.
The introduction of a private member’s bill by a brave Victorian Liberal backbencher, Petro Georgiou, is a welcome sign.
[Daniel Ellsberg’s] bravery can be summarised thus ...
Poor kid might be working through some masculinity issues. Prepare now to enter Loewenstein’s Gallery of Putting-It-Besters:
The SMH’s David Marr puts it best ...
Lynne Withey, director of the University of California Press, puts it best ...
Hitchens puts it best ...
Scott Burchill put it best ...
Phil Gomes put it best ...
Salim Lone, former spokesman for the UN mission in Iraq put it best ...
Britain’s Daily Mail put it best ...
Sher Khan, chair of the public affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, puts it best ...
Josh Marshall @ Talking Point Memo puts it best ...
Buzzflash puts it best ...
Andrew Sullivan, a blogger in the US, puts it best ...
Crikey’s editor Misha Ketchell put it best ...
Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, puts it best ...
Daily Flute blog puts it best ...
UPDATE. Loewenstein puts it bravely:
I was recently appointed to the Board of Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. This was due to a number of board members, and staff at Macquarie, expressing support for my work.
And what a great body of work it is! Here’s an example, from a Webdiary post in which Loewenstein invents a medical condition known as “hick-ups”:
Australians appear to be taking their history pretty seriously these days, especially if through the prism of fighting imperial wars (WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Iraq).
Those imperial wars led to the creation of the Australian empire, which stretches from Saigon to Berlin. Antony continues:
I was told they wanted to attract journalists, rather than just academics, to the board.
Well, why didn’t they invite an actual journalist instead of a failed online trainee?
UPDATE II. Jim Treacher—author of A Million Little Meeces—finds Antony’s poetic side.