by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 25, 2011 | Luke Historians, Politics, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
What is newsworthy about Lawrence O’Donnell scoffing at “the end of the world”? Last week, Lawrence O’Donnell attempted to live up (or arguably down) to his Beck-bashing maestro predecessor Keith Olbermann by unleashing a litany about Bill O’Reilly,...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 10, 2010 | Reminiscences, The Washington Times Communities
It’s been fourteen years since the launching of “the most powerful name in news.” How has media in general changed within that time? Fourteen years ago, I witnessed the beginnings of the Fox News channel as a six year old. I called the O’Reilly...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 5, 2010 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
Glenn Beck has caught the attention of the American people because he has shattered a glass ceiling in mainstream media. “You’re a Jehoshaphat,” a pastor told Glenn Beck before the August 28, 2010 Restoring Honor rally that drew a crowd whose quantity climbed in the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 3, 2010 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities
Often it isn’t what happens, but what gets talked about that makes all the difference. When President Obama commented on General Stanley McChrystal, the greatest impression made on me was the source Obama cited as specific rationale for his approval of...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 10, 2010 | Politics, World Views
It’s a commonplace scenario that was repeated recently: Christian invites unbeliever to salvation. Unbelieving onlookers wag their heads and proceed to enact the contemporary equivalent of stoning or the lion’s den, whichever stamps the notion out...