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...future.Media demagoguery is nothing new; only now, jingoism and yellow journalism have evolved into cable news talking heads. Along with some xenophobic politicians, they have made a living out of bashing Hispanics and Middle Easterners. In April, a Colorado state legislator referred to Mexicans as “illiterate peasants?? on the State House floor. Controversial talk-show host Bill O’Reilly has accused supporters of the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill of attempting to “flood the country with foreign nationals.” Representative Peter King, told an interviewer that...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: The Bitter Taste of Bigotry | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

...this mean that everyone can be a good person even if they don’t look like one on the surface?” she asks Darnay in a flat voice). Certainly, much more meaning could be drawn out from all of this—using the French peasants?? habit of making ridiculous, rhymed slogans as political commentary, for example—but to do so would be to miss the point. “A Tale of Two Cities” was about taking a break from academic analysis, leaving the classroom...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Two Cities’ Delights Children and Adults | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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