Tuesday, July 15, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard Landes: The Dreyfus Affair 2.0 - 'On May 21, 2008, a French court of appeals in Paris came to a remarkable verdict. Reversing an earlier decision by the (in)famous "Chambre 17," which specializes in defamation, the judges exonerated Philippe Karsenty, an online media critic, of libeling the public television France2 and its star Middle East correspondent, Charles Enderlin. There was no question that Karsenty's accusations did indeed strike at the "honor and reputation" of France2 (the charge). After all, he bluntly accused them of running staged footage as real news in their explosive broadcast eight years ago about the killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee, Mohammad Al Durah...'
