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S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse
Halo1 writes "The Guerrilla News Network has made a great 11 minute movie, culled from over 20 hours of footage from different channels. It's a lightning fast razorsharp analysis of the post 9/11 coverage by the general media and gives you quite a different view of the politicians and their calls for war. It's insightful, frightning and funny at the same time (we need a new mod option! :). The links on the movie page go to the Windows Media version at the Sundance Online Film Festival (they're competing with that movie), but they also have Quicktime versions available locally: low and high bandwidth (links posted with permission from all involved parties)."
I haven't seen 9-11: (c)StA, despite being a GNN forum semi-regular, but I've had the opportunity to view other collage film efforts on the topic.
In particular, Plasticman and the Justice League by Toronto artist and slacker Jonathan Culp was quite hilarious and biting.
If you're up for a slightly twisted view of things, along with some artsy-fartsy film tricks, dig around the alternative billboards in your area. There's some interesting stuff floating around out there. It may not change any minds (or it might!), but as cultural artifacts and Negativland-style low-budget social commentary efforts, many such flicks are worth seeking out.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
Interesting that the clip of Ted Koppel in which he talks about wishing "all our Muslim viewers a happy Ramadan" doesn't include the full quote, which ended with something along the lines of "We do want to be politically correct, don't we?" The full clip is available in this amazing "illegal" video Spin
at illegal-art.org, where incidentally you can download other illegal audio & video.
Secondly, Steve Allen was a genius.
In a recent news report covering an anti-US rally in Iraq, one man was shown holding a banner reading "A nation of sheep, owned by pigs, and led by wolves." (or something to that effect). Most Americans would probably find this very offensive unless they consider the facts of the matter, and the truth is that we have let Donald "Let's Rumble" Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush-lynching mob get completely out of control. This movie only helps to drive that point home.
This was clearly made by the "Daddy is paying for my college, let's go protest...yah!!" crowd. While I appreciate art, I loathe the fact that the most recogized art is made by people who, with their views, would otherwise be known as "freaks" or , my favorite, "those people". The news media by and large knows nothing and we must not forget that they are all clamoring for ratings first and real news and insight comes second.
As far as the comments about Fox News; while it does seem to lean to the Right this is highlighted by the other networks leaning far far Left. I don't believe any of it is intentional (Please see Bernard Goldberg's book Bias). I expect bias. Can you imagine going through life with no opinion? And if a journalist could even get out of college without hugging a tree or joining a protest then the Washington game would do them in at some point.
In case you're wondering...I do listen to Rush Limbaugh, I drive German cars, I'm poor, I couldn't code to save my life, approve of drug legalization, and I'm drunk at this moment. I don't conform to labels....do you?
refreshing to see slashdot address some real issues rather than 'dmca is evil take 1024'. i must've downloaded the video a couple of months back though so i don't know how its news - quite funny but of course lacking in any hard facts so not going to really convert anyone but the converted. the GNN also has a series of videos on 'unanswered questions about sept 11' which are interesting and more informative but rather conspiracy theorist.
in my search for a bit of truth about the whole matter, i've put together a small set of actual facts about sept 11 + american foreign policy in general and thrown them on my website www.bevin.de/usa/ . every fact/claim is linked to relatively credible documents / news stories. i'd like to hear some slashdotters' opinions - the site is pretty anti us-foreign-policy in its leaning but like i said, nothings there thats not well backed up, which is in contrast to everything else i've been able to find on the web.
The thing I really didn't like about this video (aside from its political angle, but it _did_ come from GNN after all..) was its methodology of trying to create a constant stream of ideas (like a audio-visual 'stream of consciousness') out of a series of quotes taken out of context, or even cut to mean the complete opposite of what was then said. Add to that the various funny bits, such as slow framing Bush, and him umming and ahhing with the combined effect of making him appear vacant, and altogether we actually have a standard piece of propaganda: Shaping how we think through use of the media, and giving 'sound bites' to give the appearance of rational arguments, while the actual content is a lot more vacuous than it appears.
Fox News is really pretty far-right; it's just that their constant denial of bias can throw you off and give you a warm, fuzzy feeling, especially if you do have a conservative streak. (This coming from a fellow Libertarian, albeit one who thinks Libertarianism reserves the people's right to form communes. ;)) If there's one thing GNN does point out, it's that all the 'liberal' outlets are 1. asleep at the wheel anyway (e.g., more interested in pimping AOLTW or Disney properties than conducting journalism), and 2. more than happy to be under the influence of the propaganda machine (they get their Press Passes, they don't need to write the stories or get the film themselves, the DoD provides the Shit Blowing Up footage the folks at home love)... FWIW, the New York Times seems to get a lot of shit for it- I guess because all the hippies just *expect* CNN/ABC/etc to be biased- but I think their wibbling is more based on Jewish neuroses. (This coming from a Jew. Everyone under the 'Jew' label not actively screaming for war (Sharon) feels like a total cornered asshole right now - as a friend who just got drafted into the .il military said... well, not quite literally, but, "Jesus Christ, I don't want to fight, but these people are killing my friends|neighbors|relatives!")
Er, anyhow... GNN seems run by some grown-up hippies, but it *is* rather inobvious where the cash and such comes from... It's mostly a shoestring type of thing, but given the whole sponsorship of the Eminem video (which would've almost had some sort of message if he didn't apologize at the end of the track), you'd think they'd follow the open-society schtick and make it more obvious who everyone is, what their party registrations are and so forth.
In case you're wondering... I gave up on listening to Limbaugh when I turned 13, I drive a 13MPG LeBaron (though I'm not particularly happy about it), I'm poor after making Daddy pay for college, I can't code to save your life, I'm in favor of legalization and I'm probably going to join the Navy since killing people beats being homeless.
EBN was doing this stuff, much better, I might add, in the early 90's.
I qualify that slightly because afaik, it might even be some or all of the founding members of EBN that are behind GNN. Their original stuff, however, was far more deft and sarcastic. This 11-minute clip was fairly boring bore none of the medium-bending antics of the previous group.
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Something similar to what FOXnews-alikes make of the Enemy ®, Dissidents that don't Beleive in Truth © and don't have Faith in Justice ®. If the clip irritated you well, you just had a taste of your own dog-food applied to your very own idols.
,-) or the oil market?
How 'bout recalling why this mess came to be?
1. Osama was trained and funded by CIA.
2. Saddam was left in place in spite of his record to please the Saudi, so these could market their oil without Iraq's competition (after all, the latter does possess the largest reserves in the planet)
3. The saudi are now compromised with Osama, quite corrupt and aren't as trustable as 10 years ago so now the US wants another controllable source to keep feeding it's SUV economy. No matter how an administration could try to spin-doctor it, Saddam is perceived as a crook so he has to be replaced with some other straw man to get that Iraqi oil to NYSE.
BTW, have you noticed how Competition and Market economy are invoked when the time comes to Downsize (fire ranks upon ranks of workers) and Reform the System (cut social spending), but not when the matter involves something like MicroSoft (just an example, the first Corporation that came off my mind
In all this I pity the miserable iraqis still scavenging to make the day out; the probably undereducated, drilled marine that will give up it's life for this. And of course the 11.9 victims that got smoked by Osama to further his miserable political plan to become Commander in Chief (sounds familiar eh?) of some islamist delirium.
I would do it as the Romans did once in it's fight for suplemacy against Alba Longa. They got 3 champions from one side to fight 3 from the other. Wouldn't you love to pit W. and Ash in a celebrity deathmatch against OBL and Saddam? We might even see some new "IBM Linux" and "Apple" commercial!
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Mi domando chi à il mandante di tutte le cazzate che faccio - Altan
"Bin Laden himself says he only wants the US out of Saudi Arabia, he wants his holy land to be left alone."
He also said he wants every christian, jew, hindu, and atheist in the entire world dead.