This Just In. . . .

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Definitely time for a big heaping helping of:

http://www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com/

Orwell Rolls in his Grave

>From Variety:

"A marvel of passionate succinctness, Robert Kane Pappas' 
docu critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion 
of American democracy. Docu asks, "Could a media system, 
controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to 
overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into 
truth?" "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" refrains from preaching to 
the choir but if its biting analysis proves true, film is unlikely to 
ever be presented to the general public. Indie arthouse and 
cable venues therefore beckon. Pic meticulously traces the 
process by which black may be turned into white, with frequent 
references totalitarian states both fictional and real -- Orwell's 
"1984" competes with Goebbels' theories on propaganda and 
blatant examples of Soviet revisionism for pride of place... 
Helmer Pappas (director of the fiction features "Now I Know," 
and "Some Fish Can Fly") forsakes all pretense of presenting 
both sides, since presumably the other side is promoted daily 
by radio, television and the press. Pappas offers like-minded 
journalists, media watchdogs, scholars and legislators who 
voice their deep concerns about the health of democracy in 
America... Pic largely relies on talking heads, but the conviction 
and punch of the interviewees' commentary, leavened with
pertinent excerpts from a lively Michael Moore speaking 
engagement, never becomes tedious. Graphs showing the 
income of the middle-class lamely flatlining while that of the 
upper-class climbs off the page are accompanied with 
shocking government figures of a 9% increase in middle-class 
income verses a 140% increase at the top..

Ronnie Scheib, Variety, November 2003

http://print.google.com/print/doc?articleid=y4tfu9Yqpn

On 2/1/07 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
i tend to think this kinda stuff isn't funny in this day and age

On 2/1/07, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com > wrote:
Those Boston police sure ended up looking like boneheads, and now
arresting these two is supposed to somehow make a joke look like a 
serious matter.  Boston was the only city out of six or so nation wide
that had such hysteria.

Wanted: Sense of Humor

On 2/1/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/47507/