15 September 2005 >> Pallywood is a short documentary, available online, that shows how freelance Palestinian cameramen are funneling staged “war footage” through major media outlets into homes throughout the world. Naturally, these staged shots are engineered for the highest emotional propaganda value, intended to get the viewer to sympathize with the Palestinian cause.

SecondDraft.org exposes how broadcast media are duped—perhaps unwittingly, perhaps not—into becoming unpaid assistants of the Palestinian media effort.

Update: This article in Commentary magazine, sent in by reader Bill Walsh, indicates that what you see in Pallywood is just the tip of the iceberg.

15 September 2005 @ 11:01AM >> Have you ever noticed how faddish science can be? It always seems like some food that we were told to eat more of ten years ago now turns out will kill us. It’s not just limited to dietary concerns; it happens with earth science as well. Did you know that just ten years before people started panicking about global warming, scientists were convinced the biggest environmental threat was global cooling?

This article by Peter Gwynne—published on April 28, 1975 in Newsweek—tries to stir up a panic about the impending “little ice age”. More >>