What Would Buddha Do?- Stephen Prothero - one of my former professors and unofficial advisor (in my mind) says it in a way classier way that I was able to express my frustration haha.
Unforgiven: Brit and Tiger and the Problem of Speed-Cycle Grace- Peter Laarman Just a nice lil article. I'm a total geek for RD. I'd love to write for them one day.
Meanwhile, school starts in two days and I hope to actually reflect much more often about what I'm reading there for it may be of some interest (if anyone reads this blog anyway). I trashed the Bento thing also, I got bored with it. Oh well. :)
Monday, January 18, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Today in American Dharma: Fox News Offends the Dharmic Traditions in an Epic One Two Punch
First of all, Happy New Year 2010 everyone! Let's start it off with some good old fashioned American religious-intolerance, shall we?
I try not to show my sometimes liberal socio-political bias (I will acknowledge that sometimes it exists), but I want to put it out there that I am not a fan of Fox News. Not so much because I am anti-republican but rather anti-insensitivity. This week was an epic one two punch for Fox News as they managed to offend two religions of Asia.
The first offensive remark came from Bret Hume while discussing the sex scandals of Tiger Woods:
In this clip Hume remarks that Woods would be better off a Christian than a Buddhist because he needs the kind of redemption only Christianity can offer. Now, far be it from me to blast Hume for his own personal opinion and religious conviction, but it does seem uncalled for that a supposed "objective journalist" make such a statement. Or am I being naïve that objectivity belongs in journalism? I know Fox News doesn't have a good track record and that the idea of the cable news networks is about talking heads with opinions, but honestly, has Hume gone too far? Or is the entire liberal media, and myself, overreacting?
The second clip comes to insult another of Asia's "isms": Hinduism. On his show Glenn Beck, probably one of the most dramatic news anchors I have ever witnessed had this to say about Hinduism's most holy river, the Ganges:
And of course... insulting others: Back, Bath and Beyond
So what do you all think? Were all these allowed b/c of freedom of speech or is there somewhere we must draw the line??
I try not to show my sometimes liberal socio-political bias (I will acknowledge that sometimes it exists), but I want to put it out there that I am not a fan of Fox News. Not so much because I am anti-republican but rather anti-insensitivity. This week was an epic one two punch for Fox News as they managed to offend two religions of Asia.
The first offensive remark came from Bret Hume while discussing the sex scandals of Tiger Woods:
In this clip Hume remarks that Woods would be better off a Christian than a Buddhist because he needs the kind of redemption only Christianity can offer. Now, far be it from me to blast Hume for his own personal opinion and religious conviction, but it does seem uncalled for that a supposed "objective journalist" make such a statement. Or am I being naïve that objectivity belongs in journalism? I know Fox News doesn't have a good track record and that the idea of the cable news networks is about talking heads with opinions, but honestly, has Hume gone too far? Or is the entire liberal media, and myself, overreacting?
The second clip comes to insult another of Asia's "isms": Hinduism. On his show Glenn Beck, probably one of the most dramatic news anchors I have ever witnessed had this to say about Hinduism's most holy river, the Ganges:
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And of course... insulting others: Back, Bath and Beyond
So what do you all think? Were all these allowed b/c of freedom of speech or is there somewhere we must draw the line??
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