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commentary: ny times How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
my response
from where i stand this is a who’s wearing the emperor’s new clothes scenario of believing in your own propaganda - when you believe in your own propaganda you are in trouble - the other factor is i ask myself in you is “who benefits [...]

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commentary: shelly palmer end of broadcast tv
hmmm shelly - i think we have to ask ourselves also who is wearing the emperor’s new clothes? - i think the traditional media - tv broadcasting world and governements and biz included have been believing in their own propaganda for so long they can’t believe it ain’t reality [...]

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Commentary: Power of culture - response to PFAW Kathryn Kolbert
excerpt of email to kathryn kolbert
response Kathryn Kolbert on ways we PFAW (People for American Way) can creatively
use culture to make social and political change
hi kathryn
hope all is well
kathryn the quick response to your ways we can creatively
use culture to make social and [...]

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Commentary: blogging revolution by Roy Greenslade - guardian.co.uk
my comment response to Roy Greenslade - Why journalists must learn the values of the blogging revolution as posted in the guardian online - June 25, 2008 9:02 AM - click here to go to article
i think of blogging as the power of one is [...]

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commentary: anonymous sources - in response to ask ny times
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my email response
as a documentary filmmaker working on a doc called Who’s
Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes - if so many people
believe in something how can it be wrong - i also wonder
about the question of anonymous sources as a weapon of mass
deception [...]

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Commentary: game of hints, promises and deception
editors note -
in reading in ny times article
Myanmar Rulers Still Impeding Access
i am caught by the revolving door that all point of view, agenda driven propaganda including but not limited to political and religious motivate comments all tend to be about promisses and deceptions - in my [...]

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excerpted from email i sent to some of my friends romans and filmmakers
Subject: knock knock food for your imagination -  Reporter Gives up Everything  to Tell a Story
yo and so
this piece of the rainbow of possibilities is from al tompkins of poynter institute - see below below
(editors note:) what got my attention is not only [...]

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What happens now for Zimbabwe?
wake up people we are living in an idiotcracy - we need to stop pretending we are zombies and don’t know what is going on in Zimbabwe, many places in africa, around the world, the USofA are heading for melt down - our leaders of the world care only about staying [...]

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Commentary: Neutralizing the Net - NYTimes - Net Neutrality Hearing - Feb 25 2008
article in NYTimes online
My Comments on NYTimes web site
net neutrality is about neutralizing us - we need to wake up and liberate ourselves from fear - “we the people” came running to this country, to this internet nation too, we came from [...]

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