:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 3.26.2003 ::
:: And here's Moore ::
Boo Who?
Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Michael Moore regarding his Oscar aceptance speech.
Did you consider an alternate version?
The other road I would have gone down is: ''We've taught the children of Columbine an important lesson this week -- that violence is an acceptable method to resolve a conflict.'' That really bothers me. Sometimes violence is unfortunately necessary in self defense, but what do you call this invasion of Iraq? [If you were to] randomly ask people, ''Do you believe Saddam Hussein is going to kill you this month?'' [would they say, ''Yes''?] Most people were raised with a certain set of Judeo-Christian values that say you don't have the right to take another person's life unless it's in self defense. I have very strong personal beliefs about this, and how can I stop being that person because I walk into the Kodak Theatre? On the other hand, I'm very respectful when I'm a guest in someone's house -- that's the way I was raised. So I put a tux on, I didn't wear a baseball cap, I said what my conscience told me to say and it related in an appropriate way to the message of my film. How wrong would it have been if I'd stood up there and thanked my agent and my lawyer and the designer who gave me the tuxedo? And how could I live with myself?
What are you doing next?
A film tentatively titled ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' It's about the country since 9/11 and how I believe that event is being used as a cover for the Bush Administration to enact policies that aren't in the best interests of the American people. It's about what led to 9/11 and what's happened since. I live in New York City, so we've all been affected by this and I'm not over it either. We knew somebody on one of the flights who died, and the firemen on our block. So I don't want whatever the important lessons are that we need to learn from this to fade away. I certainly don't like those who died that day being dishonored and being used to pass laws so they can force librarians to give up their reading lists.
posted by me
:: 9:25:00 PM [+] ::
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