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Controversial writer stopped from speaking in Halifax
Paul Everest, CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
HALIFAX - Dozens of Halifax protesters on Tuesday stopped a controversial speech from American journalist Jared Taylor, who describes himself as a ''race realist.''
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Two points, in case you didn't "read more":
1) The person quoted who advocated the best way to deal with these goombahs - namely, ignore them - was there protesting!
2) Apparently, no one showed up to listen to this guy - thereby following the best course of action - except the protestors and some other journalists.
Some kinda dissonance here, or who can tell what's a publicity stunt and what isn't anymore....
In other news, I ordered our Burning Man tickets!
Yum yum hurray.
Paul Everest, CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
HALIFAX - Dozens of Halifax protesters on Tuesday stopped a controversial speech from American journalist Jared Taylor, who describes himself as a ''race realist.''
( Read more... )
***
Two points, in case you didn't "read more":
1) The person quoted who advocated the best way to deal with these goombahs - namely, ignore them - was there protesting!
2) Apparently, no one showed up to listen to this guy - thereby following the best course of action - except the protestors and some other journalists.
Some kinda dissonance here, or who can tell what's a publicity stunt and what isn't anymore....
In other news, I ordered our Burning Man tickets!
Yum yum hurray.
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Ordinarily one should not rely on the National Post for social commentary, but today's editorial nailed it (in striking contrast to the shrieky, grating, entirely predictable tone of the rest that paper's coverage of the event):
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HST to be Shot From Cannon
Comrade ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gummobrux take note:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/04/06/Arts/thompsoncannon050406.html
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I sigh with envy at this. "He loved explosions", what an epitaph....
gummobrux take note:http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/04/06/Arts/thompsoncannon050406.html
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I sigh with envy at this. "He loved explosions", what an epitaph....
The Thong Retains the Frame
Someone out there is taking pictures of students' butt-floss thong underwear hanging out and posting them on the net! Aiiieee!
( excerpted from today's Vancouver Sun )
Clode added: "This person is clearly working as though people are not aware of what he's doing, although as somebody pointed out to me, how can you not be aware that you're not being revealing?"
Referring to the students being photographed, he said: "Their choice of attire is their choice. I can't image that you don't know what the effect is of how you dress."
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so_busted.
( excerpted from today's Vancouver Sun )
Clode added: "This person is clearly working as though people are not aware of what he's doing, although as somebody pointed out to me, how can you not be aware that you're not being revealing?"
Referring to the students being photographed, he said: "Their choice of attire is their choice. I can't image that you don't know what the effect is of how you dress."
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Think I'll crosspost this to
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From today's Globe and Mail. I know many of you do not share my interest in copyright and intellectual law (well, it's not an interest, more like a viewing-with-alarm) but here goes:
How copyright could be killing culture
The high cost of getting permission to use archival footage and photos threatens to put makers of documentaries out of business
by GUY DIXON
As Americans commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy today, no television channel will be broadcasting the documentary series Eyes on the Prize. Produced in the 1980s and widely considered the most important encapsulation of the American civil-rights movement on video, the documentary series can no longer be broadcast or sold anywhere.
Why?
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But at a time when documentaries are probing the U.S. war on terrorism or globalization, for instance, in ways that are more in-depth than typical mainstream news media, the question of whether copyright restrictions are creating a blinkered view of the world is a serious one.
"Why do you think the History Channel is what it is? Why do you think it's all World War II documentaries? It's because it's public-domain footage. So the history we're seeing is being skewed towards what's fallen into public domain," says filmmaker Robert Stone in the American University study.
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How copyright could be killing culture
The high cost of getting permission to use archival footage and photos threatens to put makers of documentaries out of business
by GUY DIXON
As Americans commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy today, no television channel will be broadcasting the documentary series Eyes on the Prize. Produced in the 1980s and widely considered the most important encapsulation of the American civil-rights movement on video, the documentary series can no longer be broadcast or sold anywhere.
Why?
( Read more... )
But at a time when documentaries are probing the U.S. war on terrorism or globalization, for instance, in ways that are more in-depth than typical mainstream news media, the question of whether copyright restrictions are creating a blinkered view of the world is a serious one.
"Why do you think the History Channel is what it is? Why do you think it's all World War II documentaries? It's because it's public-domain footage. So the history we're seeing is being skewed towards what's fallen into public domain," says filmmaker Robert Stone in the American University study.
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