Archive for April, 2006


27
Apr

Can We Save The Internet?

Details on Dissector Screening in Boston Tomorrow; Tribeca Film Festival Report; Bonus Track: Neil Young’s Lyrics

INTERNET: GOING, GOING, GONE?
WILL ROVE BE INDICTED
AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
I usually play media news second to the latest and the greatest in the daily headline hit parade. But today, we reverse the order because we are on the verge […]


27
Apr

Dissector’s Daily Media Monitor

THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Tim Harper of the Toronto Star reports that our President’s Media management techniques are backfiring:
”WASHINGTON—Over the past three years, more than 2,500 U.S. military coffins have returned home to this country and not a single arrival ceremony has been captured by a media outlet.
“But despite the policy of U.S. President George […]


27
Apr

The Festival That Ate New York

The Tribeca Film Festival is taking over New York City like an amoeba, bursting out its downtown environs into multiplexes in Midtown. With sponsors galore, especially American Express, it seems to be everywhere. At the AMC (formerly Loew’s) picture palace on West 34th Street, the festival opened with confusion. People wandered around unsure of what […]


27
Apr

Bonus Track: Neil Young on Bush

Here’s a Dissector Extra, our Bonus Track, unfortunately without the music for now. This is the lyric of singer Neil Young’s latest: “Impeach The President.”
For more on the Song:
http://livingwithwar.blogspot.com/
“Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s […]

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