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Friday, February 04, 2005
Great film from Amy's "highly recommend" file: CONTROL ROOM.
This film is a documentary which records what was going on with Al Jazeera during the US invasion of Iraq, but since all the networks of the world were being housed together at a military facility in Qatar (you have to watch the special features to see why "fox news" kept calling it "Gutter"), it is also about all the American, British, French, (ETC.) journalists, how they worked (and practically lived) together. It records lively conversations between people with wildly different points of view, shows how the US military "managed" the news: "they buried the lead," one American reporter complains, after the military slyly got them all to focus on the "card deck" of wanted Iraqis at the same moment the US was moving into Baghdad. "They're really very good at it," he says. HOW they got the reporters to become obsessed with the card deck is a marvel to watch. Really, the movie's fascinating if for no other reason than you get to find out what REAL news was being buried by what memorable non-news: the deck of cards, the Jessica Lynch fantasy, the staged toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein ("I am an Iraqi," the Al Jazeera reporter explains. "I was born in this country. I lived here my whole life. I know Iraqi accents. These men are not Iraqis."), and so on. There's more than I can relate here. I found this movie so fascinating, I'm planning to buy it. It's worth watching again. Tuesday, February 01, 2005
To the Sun Sentinel:
The most revealing detail in your article about City Manager George Gretsas' crusade to clean up the Himmarshee bar scene is that Mr. Gretsas hails from White Plains, NY: this explains much, because if Mr. Gretsas were a native South Floridian, he would know that tourism, namely the tourism of people who want to blow off professional-league steam with Fort Lauderdale-style drinking and dancing, is what keeps our economy strong. Even if Mr. Gretsas were a long-time resident, he would know that the area in question has remarkably recovered from being a dark, dangerous corner of town plagued by drug use and prostitution. The bars and restaurants who took a chance on Himmarshee are the heros of the historic area, who turned things around there, who saved the area. We need to remember how important hospitality is to South Florida: if we had made the Spring Breakers of 1980 feel unwelcome, they would not be returning to us now, in their 40's, with affectionate memories of Fort Lauderdale and money to spend. Remember, the good times of our visitors are OUR good times as well! Monday, January 31, 2005
I have officially decided to leave San Francisco, much as I love this place, and to return home, because, well, I love that place more. It was tempting though, very tempting: if I hadn't already left my heart in Margate, I might run the risk of losing it here. This will always be my favorite city, my favorite place in general, outside of HOME.
With love, from me to you!
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