Comments on: Spin http://www.willpate.org/2007/03/14/spin/ Peek into a mind of boundless curiosity Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:33:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Rohan Jayasekera http://www.willpate.org/2007/03/14/spin/#comment-1146 Rohan Jayasekera Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:51:24 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2007/03/14/spin/#comment-1146 I wasn't planning to watch the whole hour, but I couldn't stop. I wonder why occasionally the soundtrack has a blip that sounds like an Australian saying "good day". Low-tech watermarking? I found the part about Larry Agran, who was ignored by the media even though he was a serious candidate for the Democratic nomination, very chilling. So that's what happens if you call for a 50% reduction in U.S. military spending: the media know it won't go over well with their audience, so they won't cover it. Only citizen journalism, mostly on the Internet, will fill this hole. (I commented recently on this in <a href="http://www.rohansrants.com/2007/02/us-media.html" rel="nofollow">this post on my second blog</a>.) I wasn’t planning to watch the whole hour, but I couldn’t stop.

I wonder why occasionally the soundtrack has a blip that sounds like an Australian saying “good day”. Low-tech watermarking?

I found the part about Larry Agran, who was ignored by the media even though he was a serious candidate for the Democratic nomination, very chilling. So that’s what happens if you call for a 50% reduction in U.S. military spending: the media know it won’t go over well with their audience, so they won’t cover it. Only citizen journalism, mostly on the Internet, will fill this hole. (I commented recently on this in this post on my second blog.)

]]> By: Wrenkin http://www.willpate.org/2007/03/14/spin/#comment-995 Wrenkin Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:03:22 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2007/03/14/spin/#comment-995 It's a pretty good movie, but he seems strangely fixated on the whole 'Larry King on drugs" thing. It’s a pretty good movie, but he seems strangely fixated on the whole ‘Larry King on drugs” thing.

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