In this fourth of what started as a three-part series on LATimes coverage of interest to Armenians, let’s briefly visit Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran.
As you might guess, Iran gets lots of coverage, what with the whole “going nuclear” issue, the ongoing antipathy and tension between it and the U.S., its connections to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, its [...]

In this third of what started as a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Kurdish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years.
Arguably, the Kurds have fared best among the peoples of Armenia’s neighbors. Certainly, they had more coverage (at least in terms of number of pieces) than [...]

In this second of a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Turkish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years.
What’s notable is the tremendously lopsided proportion of Armenian vs. Turkish coverage, approximately a 1-to-5 ratio, respectively. If we were to add coverage of Kurdish issues within Turkey, that [...]

We were all pleased when the LA Times finally left the dark side by terminating its use of the word “alleged” every time it referred to the Genocide. We were also pleased when the paper dumped Douglas Frantz, a clearly biased, Turkophilic former editor. But is that it? Is that all we want from the [...]

Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is famously noted to have said something to the effect of, “Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth.”
That’s part of what happened in Massachusetts. The Republican candidate, and now Senator-elect, Scott Brown played to people’s fear. In this case, fear of the unknown. The Republican Party, for [...]

Everyone’s heard about the in-church murder of the abortion provider in Kansas. Only last week, though, an interesting twist arose. The culprit plans to explain why he did it, in an attempt to have the charge against him reduced to voluntary manslaughter rather than first-degree murder.
Naturally, anti-abortion advocates are pleasantly surprised while their opposite numbers [...]

No doubt many politically right-leaning readers will see an oxymoron in this title. I see an almost redundancy. So I’m hoping to address a few issues in this realm, particularly since the New Year brings with it new laws, which are nothing if not manifestations of government.
An example of bad government is the choice made [...]

We all wish one another, at least in English, a “happy” new year. But aside from the resolutions attendant to this time, we forget that a major component of happiness is another “h” word—health. So let’s take a look at some not-so-obvious health issues, with thanks to the LATimes for, over the last three years, [...]

We were all raised to believe that “Armenians are Christians,” which of course begs the question, “Are all Armenians Christians?” Logically, it would have to be so, but that’s a fun little game of logic that can be played separately.
This truism has informed, guided, perverted, shaped, and in countless ways impacted our national existence for [...]

Paul Krekorian won the election for LA’s second council district seat!
This is a credit to very good organization, outreach to the many communities and components that make up that weirdly gerrymandered district, and also a very respectable turnout and effort by the Armenian community and ANC. It’s also proof that organization can trump money. If [...]