Category: Journalism

More praise for Razib Khan of Gene Expression blog (GNXP)

Razib Khan is the designer and chief administrator of Gene Expression blog (gnxp.com).  Lately, he has been advertising his availability for web development using PHP (hypertext pre-processor language) and writing well-informed and well-reasoned pieces on genetics or public policy.  Anyone thinking of hiring Razib to do such work had better read this entry first.

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Posted by J Richards on Monday, January 9, 2006 at 09:18 PM in Blogs & Blogging,  Journalism,  Oh Tempora, Oh Mores
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Muslim rape wave in Sweden

J Richards touched on some of these incidents a while ago

Muslim Rape Wave in Sweden

By Fjordman

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Friday, December 16, 2005 at 12:31 PM in Islam & Islamification,  Journalism,  Marxism & Culture War,  Race realism
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Amazing:  “The Guardian” acknowledges IQ

Lord love us!  What has the world come to?  In The Guardian, of all places, we find an article reporting that there is such a thing as general mental ability (popularly known as IQ) and that it is highly hereditary!  I guess that after around 100 years of scientific evidence to that effect, the truth is getting just too hard to ignore.  Excerpt: 

“Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry are trying to unravel how much genes, rather than environmental factors, affect a child’s academic prowess. By analysing the test results of 6,000 twins, they were able to see clear genetic factors emerging for both numerical skills and reading ability. They compared test results for seven-year-old identical twins, who share the same DNA, with the results from non-identical twins, who only share 50 per cent of their DNA, to assess how much was down to genes. Yulia Kovas, who led the investigation, said: ‘Our work shows that there is a substantial genetic overlap between maths and reading, but also between maths and general intelligence. ‘It seems that there is a group of “general” genes that govern our achievements at school.”

But I guess we might have to wait a while before average racial differences in IQ are admitted

Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 11:46 PM in Journalism
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Excellent morale and cohesion in America’s multiracial army

Back in June, this column pointed out that it is impossible to fight a war without heroism—but that you would never know that from the mainstream media. Nothing heroic done by American troops in Iraq is likely to make headlines in the New York Times or be featured on the big three broadcast network news programs.

That fact has now been belatedly recognized in a New York Times opinion piece, but with a strange twist.
After briefly mentioning a few acts of bravery in Iraq—including a Marine who smothered an enemy grenade with his own body, saving the lives of his fellow Marines at the cost of his own—the Times’ writer said, “the military, the White House and the culture at large have not publicized their actions with the zeal that was lavished on the heroes of World War I and World War II.”

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 11:42 PM in Journalism
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Steyn turns me into a copy ‘n paste artist again!

Treading ever nearer to saying the unsayable, the MSM’s only honest voice writes:-

... the terrorist bent on devastation and destruction prowls the streets, while around him are a significant number of people urging him on, and around them a larger group of cocksure young men gleefully celebrating mass murder, and around them a much larger group of people who stand silent at the acts committed in their name, and around them a mesh of religious and community leaders openly inciting mayhem, and around them a savvy network of professional identity-group grievance-mongers adamant that they’re the real victims, and around them a vast mass of progressive elites too squeamish about ethno-cultural matters to confront reality, and around them a political establishment desperate to pretend this is just a managerial problem that can be finessed away with a new bureaucracy and a bit of community outreach.

And at the end of this chain of shades of grey is you.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 02:49 AM in Journalism
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Inter-racial murders and the health of the MSM - updated

Two late-night murders dominated domestic news stories in yesterday’s and today’s British Mainstreams.  One was the vile stabbing of Richard Whelan by a fellow passenger on a London bus.  The victim was white, the murderer black.

The other, already the recipient of very much more wallpaper, is the shocking axe murder of Anthony Walker.  His was, apparently, a racist killing of a black by a white or whites.

It is clear that the murder of Anthony Walker, who we are sensitively informed was a “devout Christian” and a “talented athlete”, “A-level student” and wannabe “lawyer”, is the one that will run and run.  Evidently, the death of Richard Whelan, merely “a hospitality agent”, offers no such journalistically picturesque delights.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, August 1, 2005 at 05:53 PM in Journalism
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Next Thursday and the Multi-Cult’s first prize

Nick Carter is everything the soon-to-be disappearing English majority of Leicester do not need in the editor of their local newspaper.  In his hands the Leicester Mercury is the messenger of multiculturalism and anti-racism.  Nick is profoundly dedicated to both and, as such, is the indefatigable enemy of majority interests.

He regards multiculturalism as the “basis on which our society is built” - a somewhat questionable claim, it must be said.  Perhaps he can plead in mitigation that he does not belong to that waning ethnic majority and doesn’t know any better.  Or perhaps he does and he does, but he is ideologically incapable of averring to the real foundations of England and the real people who built them.

He is no historian, in all fairness – and one should strive to retain one’s sense of fairness even with people like this, in fact especially with people like this.  He claims: “This country has been multi-cultural for a very long time.”  I am not absolutely sure when multiculturalism became our official religion.  I must admit, I thought it was rather recently.  But if Nick says it was long, long ago when Leicester’s housing estates emerged from the primordial mists and the first, of course, always vibrant immigrants drove out the neanderthals and built a mosque … well, he must be right.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, April 29, 2005 at 06:12 PM in Journalism
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Another attempt to explain.  Another retreat from the truth.

This Telegraph article, Labour’s immigration policy? Lots more of it by Alasdair Palmer, is indicative of a problem affecting all political commentary on the topic of immigration: nobody will say the real reason why mass immigration is happening.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 02:44 PM in Journalism
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A Slap in the face

A “dyed in the wool” liberal faces up to the truth: no one trusts the media in the United States. I wonder why…........

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 03:41 PM in Journalism
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Echoes in the MSM

Leader writers, those callow redbrick graddies who cut their not-yet-yellow journalist’s teeth on a few hundred words of thunderous pointlessness every day, are not normally the controversial sort.  They can’t afford to be.  Careers ahead of them, editors to impress, ghastly blunders to avoid ... you know how it is.  But one of this morning’s two offerings by the Telegraph’s leader writer ever so slightly cracked the mould.

His or, just possibly, her first paragraph was a standard Telegraph rant at the dishonesty of the BBC.  Read it many a time.  But then our young hopeful warmed to his (or just possibly her) task, displaying a knowledge of Genghis Khan’s liberal social policy that, as they say, rocked: When he conquered a new tribe, it was his custom to liquidate the aristocracy and assimilate the lower orders: “providing opportunities for the many and not the few”, as it were.  Where modern socialists are sometimes accused of cutting high achievers down to size, Genghis did this literally, ordering the execution of all Tatars over a certain height.  He was a great believer in state power, replacing Mongolia’s clan system with a rudimentary bureaucracy.  He was even an early decimaliser, organising his forces in units of 10.

It was a laugh, that was all.  But I stopped smiling and started thinking when I read the penultimate sentence: Above all, he was a supra-nationalist, deliberately mingling subject populations to destroy their sense of national identity.

Suddenly, forbidden knowledge hove into view.  You won’t hear Michael Howard say anything like that about Labour - never mind Genghis - on his shirt-sleeved tour of the marginals.  You won’t hear him roaring at Blair & Co for the utterly deliberate damage being done to the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish - but most especially the English.  You won’t hear any Tory rail at Labour’s transnationalism, or rip apart its blank slate racial egalitarianism.  It’s not part of the electoral discourse.  It’s too complicated.  Too dangerous.  Not polite.  And, accordingly, our heroic young journalist finishes off his (or just possibly her) effort blandly and therefore safely career-wise, “Step forward Genghis Khan, father of European integration.”  But that was a clear after-thought of no significance.  The other words, those ones about the deliberate mingling of populations to destroy national identity, were burnt onto the page.

It’s good to know that this sort of seminal critique of liberalism is received “out there”, beyond the internet badlands of right-wing cyber-bastards like us.  It’s good to know that it’s not completely self-censored as the left dictates, too.  Perhaps it’s all worth saying again ... and again.

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 03:07 PM in Journalism
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Quote of the day (well, three or four of them actually)

... what “no-go area” generally means is that you can vote for Tweedle-left or Tweedle-right but all the great questions have been settled by transnational elites sufficiently insulated from your tedious parochial griping.

Mark Steyn, writing in today’s Telegraph.

Steyn is an interesting case.  He earns what must, in journalist’s terms be a substantial crust by extending both ends of the political commentator’s art.  On the one hand, he skits across the stolid affairs of nations and the works of powerful men with a delicious irreverence and lightness of touch.  Where serious political analysis should be are the acid truths and improper musings of a one-time student rag writer grown more skilled but also more comfortable and rounder of girth with age.  Thus:-

I’ve no reason to disbelieve the crop of polls showing Labour and Conservatives neck and neck, but, unlike American polling, where distinctions between “registered” and “likely” voters are carefully studied, none of us has any clear idea which unloved party will do the least effective job at further depressing the turnout of whatever unenthusiastic faction of its dwindling base is most unresistant to being cajoled to the polls.

On the other hand, as a beneficiary perhaps of the double detachment of being a foreign national and a Jew, he eschews the familiar petty battles of British political life in favour, amazingly, of the things that actually interest us.  So we get transnationalism over the cornflakes - the rude but oft neglected reminder that our votes don’t mean a damned thing.  If we did not know before, we are plainly told now:-

The Guardian complained yesterday about Michael Howard’s assertion that “for too many years immigration has been a no-go area for public debate”, and I sort of agree with them. It’s not that it’s a “no-go area for public debate”, but that you can debate it all you want and in the end nothing happens.

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... the so-called public “indifference” to the royal wedding is part of a deeper fatalism toward British institutions and the British state. The Windsors have been wily adaptors to the evolving mood of their kingdom, but with the kingdom evolving itself clear out of business, who needs a king?

In the free and scandalously irresponsible cyber-world of blogging this sort of hard truth-speak is meat and drink.  We don’t get nearly enough of it in a mainstream that assesses the cares of the public no higher than a morbid fascination with bed-blocking in the NHS.  Where can one find a few more Mark Steyns?

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 02:41 AM in Journalism
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