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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Welcome

The creation of this blog was inspired by the movie "Control Room," so many thanks to director Jehane Noujaim, a very courageous woman for putting this movie out in a hostile country run by gangsters, criminals, and ne'er-do-wells. Yes, I mean the current administration!

It's on the people to seek out information. Don't just take the evening news at face value, whether you're watching Faux News or Al-Jazeera (the subject of Noujaim's documentary). Take it from me, a former journalist. I know how trends are invented, how press releases are rewritten as news, how some stories make the front page and others never make it at all. I'm not disparaging the entire profession, there are still some noble practitioners out there. But the number within the mainstream media are dwindling.

Go see Control Room instead of Shrek 2. Or in addition to. Sneak into Control Room after Shrek 2 is over. I don't care how you do it, just do it. You need to see the footage of dead soldiers and bloody Iraqis, the footage you'll never find on Fox or CNN. You need to see the Arab TV journalists, laughing, smoking, cracking jokes, like human beings. They are actually human beings, not some machines pumping out lies like Rumsfeld refers to them. I think he must have been looking in the mirror when he made that claim.

Then watch the human Arab TV people die when "coalition" forces bomb their Baghdad headquarters. Mistake? Think not, because Al-Jazeera gave the U.S. military their coordinates so that kind of thing wouldn't happen...

I could go on and on but I am at work. I'll be back though. The point is, we have to up the ante in these months running up to the war for the White House. You, me, and we.
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