• Hugo Chavez •
March 11, 2013
The Briefing 03-11-13
1) The Deification of Hugo Chavez: where theology meets cult of personality
Deceased Leader Is Idolized Like His Own Idol, Bolívar, Wall Street Journal (Jose De Cordoba and Sara Schaefer Munoz)
2) North Korea’s threats, the new Axis of Evil, and restraining evil in a fallen world
As North Korea Blusters, South Flirts With Talk of Nuclear Arms,…
March 6, 2013
The Briefing 03-06-13
Story 1 – The end of a personality cult: Hugo Chavez is dead
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Dies, CNN (Catherine E. Shoichet and Dana Ford)
President Hugo Chávez Dies After Battle with Cancer, New York Times (William Neuman)
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez dies, USA Today (Girish Gupt)
Story 2 – Playboy tries to rebuild in age of free pornography
A…
February 20, 2013
The Briefing 02-20-13
Story 1 – The Personality Cult of Hugo Chávez
Chávez Returns to Venezuela, Trailing Doubts, The New York Times (William Nueman)
Crowds cheer Hugo Chávez’s surprise return to Venezuela, USA Today (Peter Wilson and Kim Hjelmgaard)
Story 2 – Modeling Reading and Reader’s Digest
Bankruptcy again for ‘Reader’s Digest’, USA Today (Geri Coleman Tucker)
Story 3 – Rise of the…
January 14, 2013
The Briefing 01-14-13
Story 1 – Hugo Chavez misses his own inauguration
Venezuela’s ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ Inaugural A Sign Of Chavez’s Tottering Regime, Investor’s Business Daily (Editors)
Story 2 – Lance Armstrong to confess to great high priestess: Oprah
On Winfrey’s Show, Armstrong Is Planning To Confess Drug Use, The New York Times (Juliet Macur)
Story 3 – ‘Infidelity Phones’ and ‘Cheater…
January 11, 2013
The Briefing 01-11-13
Story 1 – Louie Giglio and the new Moral McCarthyism
Minister Pulls Out of Inauguration After Outcry,The New York Times (Sheryl Gay Stolberg)
The Giglio Imbroglio — The Public Inauguration of a New Moral McCarthyism, (Albert Mohler)
Story 2 – Hugo Chavez chooses Marxism over potential cancer cure
Hugo Chavez Hit By Cuba’s Surgical Strike, Investors Business Daily (Editors)
Story…
December 11, 2012
The Briefing 12-11-12
Story 1 – Is the Biblical account of Jesus’s birth historical fact or just unenlightened religious devotion?
What Do We Really Know About Jesus? Newsweek (Bart Ehrman)
Story 2 – The worldwide impact of the twilight of Hugo Chavez
Venezuela Confronts Twilight of Chávez Era, Wall Street Journal (Jose De Cordoba)
Story 3 – The war for gender neutrality…
