Scott Horton, the superb host of Antiwar Radio, raises a great point. There is something wrong with a society in which most people know who Natalee Holloway is, but few know who Rachel Corrie is.
How many know who Leon Klinghoffer is? How many know who Furkan Dogan is? Many people will recognize the first of these names even now, 25 years after it first hit the news. Can we say the same for the second today? How about 25 years from now? I think I know the answer.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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For six months, I prided myself on not knowing enough about the O.J. Simpson case to have an opinion. "I don't know enough to have an opinion, and I'm trying to keep it that way."
We are in a trance. And this does not bode well for the "thinking outside the box" that is needed today.
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