Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 01:09:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: deleuze oedipus rimbaud <rimbaudboyo-AT-yahoo.ca>
Subject: Fisky Frisky Privelige


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Dear ANn Rice adn other coloniales. None are bougee on these lists.as for US WE LIVE IN A SCHIZO SHOE AND ARE ONE WELFARESO DONTPREACH TO MEI WAS SADTHAT Might be a problemonthe other handit could be liberationor liberace i guess it dependswhich queer you are onif Said is Queer then so are Weand if Bush is straight then we are notwe stay at the Hotel Auscwhwitz have you ever heard of thatSuck my big ToeAnnRIceyou old capitalist whore

MeKeady2-AT-aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/27/03 6:23:02 PM, owner-postcolonial-digest-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu writes:


Does he have to stay in a five star hotel?  Probably cheap
in Baghdad, but in NYC that will run you at least $250 a
day.  A satellite phone, I realize, is a necessary tool in
his business?


What kind of nonsense is this?  I assume you are referring to the hotel Palestine where most of the unembedded journalists stayed during the American attack on Baghdad, under the assumption (erroneous to a certain extent given the shooting at the hotel by American troops) that this hotel would (as in the last invasion) be a safe place for journalists to stay.  It seems a reasonable call to me.

At any rate, I don't think that either of us is  in a position to deliver a judgment on some fantasy of the arrangements, financial and otherwise, between Fisk and his employer.  You recognize your privilege (even without the rich parents you seem to desire) as a graduate student who has easy access to electronic media that others routinely pay for.  Your students enjoy this access, as do many users of public libraries throughout this country.

I think it is important to remember that the spread of the  internet has given unprecedented access to publications from all over the world.  Indeed it is through such  clearing houses as znet that many of us are made aware of exemplary progressive writers.   With wider use and in times that unfortunately generate many pressing areas of coverage, issues of payment are necessarily going to arise (znet has placed many of its articles off-limits to non-subscribers). Fisk regularly appears on Pacifica Radio, and as far as I know, their streaming audio is still free.  

I think we should acknowledge the reality that certain types of work--such as the intellectual work you feel so poorly remunerated for and the kind of  reporting Fisk produces--do require some kind of funding to continue.  No one has complained that academics write for publishing companies who make a profit from their books, even if many of us do continue to publish articles for no remuneration at all.

Although I think the struggle between opening access and preserving economic viability for alternative news online is important, I feel that governmental restriction and hacking of progressive sites is a much more pressing issue.  Please, let's remember who the enemy really is.  

Anne Rice 


 



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In a message dated 4/27/03 6:23:02 PM, owner-postcolonial-digest-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu writes:

Does he have to stay in a five star hotel?  Probably cheap
in Baghdad, but in NYC that will run you at least $250 a
day.  A satellite phone, I realize, is a necessary tool in
his business?

What kind of nonsense is this?  I assume you are referring to the hotel Palestine where most of the unembedded journalists stayed during the American attack on Baghdad, under the assumption (erroneous to a certain extent given the shooting at the hotel by American troops) that this hotel would (as in the last invasion) be a safe place for journalists to stay.  It seems a reasonable call to me.

At any rate, I don't think that either of us is  in a position to deliver a judgment on some fantasy of the arrangements, financial and otherwise, between Fisk and his employer.  You recognize your privilege (even without the rich parents you seem to desire) as a graduate student who has easy access to electronic media that others routinely pay for.  Your students enjoy this access, as do many users of public libraries throughout this country.

I think it is important to remember that the spread of the  internet has given unprecedented access to publications from all over the world.  Indeed it is through such  clearing houses as znet that many of us are made aware of exemplary progressive writers.   With wider use and in times that unfortunately generate many pressing areas of coverage, issues of payment are necessarily going to arise (znet has placed many of its articles off-limits to non-subscribers). Fisk regularly appears on Pacifica Radio, and as far as I know, their streaming audio is still free. 

I think we should acknowledge the reality that certain types of work- -such as the intellectual work you feel so poorly remunerated for and the kind of  reporting Fisk produces--do require some kind of funding to continue.  No one has complained that academics write for publishing companies who make a profit from their books, even if many of us do continue to publish articles for no remuneration at all.

Although I think the struggle between opening access and preserving economic viability for alternative news online is important, I feel that governmental restriction and hacking of progressive sites is a much more pressing issue.  Please, let's remember who the enemy really is. 

Anne Rice