Stephanie Gutmann is a journalist and author known for her writing on media, culture, and the military. She contributed to The Weekly Standard from its early years through 2001, writing on topics ranging from pop culture and sports to media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is the author of books including *The Kinder, Gentler Military* and *The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for Media Supremacy*.
It's hard to conceive of a publicity campaign better calculated to outrage polite opinion than the one that heralded this year's new football league -- the XFL, brainstorm of the World Wrestling Federation's Vince McMahon and his partner, NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol.
Day after day the seemingly incontrovertible evidence of Israel's brutality rolls in. The snippets of videotape bounced around the world by CNN, BBC World News, and Sky TV are nearly always the same: A mob of dark-skinned teenagers armed with rocks pit themselves against phalanxes of faceless…
Day after day the seemingly incontrovertible evidence of Israel's brutality rolls in. The snippets of videotape bounced around the world by CNN, BBC World News, and Sky TV are nearly always the same: A mob of dark-skinned teenagers armed with rocks pit themselves against phalanxes of faceless…
Day after day the seemingly incontrovertible evidence of Israel's brutality rolls in. The snippets of videotape bounced around the world by CNN, BBC World News, and Sky TV are nearly always the same: A mob of dark-skinned teenagers armed with rocks pit themselves against phalanxes of faceless…
Jewish newspapers in the 1930s and 1940s featured a column called "Our Film Folk," revealing to the delight of the readership that many of the Hollywood glitterati they loved were, in fact, fellow members of the Hebrew faith. A new version of"Our Film Folk" circulates these days in conversation, if…