DEEP THROAT

Chuck O’Brien has this “breaking news:”

“Unconfirmed reports from Fox News reveal that Mark Felt was not deep throat; but that he agreed to say he was in order to help Woodward continue his own cover-up of a far greater scandal. W Mark Felt is allowing his name to go forward in order to get Woodward, Bernstein, and Bradley off the hook about the ‘Deep Throat’ disinformation of the actual truth — that Nixon actually did nothing wrong and everything about Watergate was a manufactured fiction of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy spurred on by the Washington Post.

“Fox News will have more on this as soon as their undisclosed source receives further confirmation from the male upstairs.”

Eva Dolan writes:

“You know, in Berlin at Sachsenhausen concentration camp I saw the propaganda films used to counteract the rumors of abuse within. Same thing today, in Bush’s flabergasted denials. And the people believed. Or they believed because they wanted to believe.”

EVENTS OF INTEREST: TONIGHT

Media That Matters invites:

“Ready to be inspired? In MediaRights’ fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival hip-hop activists, dancing peanuts and claymation teenagers tackle today’s most pressing social issues. Launching June 1, 2005, Media That Matters brings innovative shorts and take action tools to audiences around the country, all year long. The 16 jury-selected films by independent and youth producers stream online, tour the country through community screenings, are broadcast on TV and are distributed as a jam-packed DVD to teachers and activists.”

World Premiere at BAMcinematek: June 1st, 2005 at 7 PM

Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue (between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tickets are $10: http://bam.org/Film/MediaThatMatters.aspx
Encore screening at 9:30pm

PERFORMING DEMOCRACY: 7:30 PM

“Just how different is the news of the day taken from American and European perspectives? On June 1st, the Goethe-Institut New York joins the Democracy Collaborative in staging a bold new exploration on how we receive the news through Performing Democracy, a creative and participatory news commentary.

“Audience members will choose from a list of major international news events of that day, taken directly from major press wire services. Guided by moderator Dr. Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld and Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, the evening’s special guests, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Washington Bureau Chief for Germany’s best known weekly newspaper Die Zeit, and journalist and independent filmmaker Danny Schechter, will deliver their comments on the chosen news stories.

“In addition, political caricaturists Til Mette, of Germany’s Stern magazine, and Mickey Siporin, whose work appears in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, will offer their own unique visual commentary on the proceedings. Performing Democracy opens with a musical collage, composed for Performing Democracy by sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello, assistant professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and archivist for New York’s The Kitchen.”

Goethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028

Admission $10/$8
Mention Mediachannel and the Newsdissector blog and you get in free!

Reservations 212-439-8700

COMING UP: Tomorrow, I will post info on WMD screenings in the U.S., U.K. and South Africa later this month.

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