MetroBEAT Editor Chris Haire hits an anti-war protest in Greenville, S.C., which is, if not the heart of Bush County, at least its gall bladder. What he finds is a protest that lacks focus and passion. Also of interest, MetroBEAT News Editor James Shannon momentarily discards his left-leaning ways and takes an objective view of the case against Iraq. "It is not a matter of technical violations, but rather an aggressive campaign to thwart the spirit and letter of the law that provides for the inspections," Shannon writes.
Pam White creates a world in which romance novels and feminism co-exist, Westword's Michael Roberts writes. White writes steamy romantic fiction as Pamela Clare. On the other hand, "White is an area journalist known for passionately advocating on behalf of women and members of indigenous communities, and for taking contentious stances without regard to political correctness," Roberts says. White finds nothing inherently contradictory in her two roles. She tells Roberts her novels "are very pro-woman. They're about a woman discovering what she wants in her life and fighting for it."
Cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work appears in several AAN papers, and Katy Reckdahl, a frequent contributor to Gambit Weekly, are among the five winners of the 2002 James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism. The judges say that Rall's "Cartooning with a Conscience" has "increasingly grown irreverent, cutting and iconoclastic, almost at times seeming to eschew humor in favor of mordant portraiture." Reckdahl was recognized for her work on the homeless of New Orleans. "Reckdahl's work challenges the stereotype that the homeless create their own situation because they are criminals, substance abusers or mentally ill," the judges wrote.
Washington Post music critic David Segal rifs on Voice critic Robert Christgau's review of the music that tops the latest Voice critics' poll of pop music, lacerating "the dean of rock criticism's" style. "Well, party people, if this man is the dean we’re going to have to burn down the college," Segal says at the beginning of a live chat session.
The Bay Guardian's Camille T. Taiara looks at a few recent major Bush administration violations of civil rights -- including alleged wiretapping of recalcitrant U.N. diplomats -- that have rocked the European press and been largely ignored at home. "By and large, the media in the United States has totally failed in its obligation to do [monitor the centers of power]. Instead of challenging officialdom, it's become a conduit, a funnel down which officialdom can talk to us," Robert Fisk, veteran Middle East correspondent for the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, told her by phone from Beirut.
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