From: "Keri" <ocicat-AT-blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: wirdz ?
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:24:50 -0000




> One of my problems is that while surfing i also listen to music (for the
moment Jim Morrison is screaming "bring out your dead, bring out your
dead..." as an intro to "The End". On my Apple screen (nice product
placement) following texts scroll by:
>
> [courtesy of cbs's dick meyers's against the grain]
>
> "This reporter is deeply embedded in a Dell desktop computer and a bunch
of TV screens in a newsroom in Washington."
>
> "Or is it the vocational imperative of the journalist to show the
unvarnished, uncensored facts (not always the truth, but the facts - they
are not necessarily the same thing)? Is it irresponsible to sanitize the
images of war? Who are we to choose what you see and what you don't see?"
>
> and Jim sings : "...in a desperate land..."
>
> where facts are not the same as the truth.
>
> What else will journalists invent to hide their inability of being a
journalist.
>
> Erik

That song _only_ reminds me of Apocalypse Now these days. Damn movie.
I've been hanging about in a Slovenian hub, so been downloading music from
among  Balkan bands like Aerodrom.
Don't understand a word but I'm getting oh so tired of bloody techno.
Slovenians are nicer than the Swedes about sharing.

Discovered Euro News better than the Beeb, CNN and crap in between.
Best news site is the Jordanian News site on web with a feed directly from
Reuters, seems
to be more accurate if possible.


Keri