Record companies are quickly becoming nothing more than caricatures of themselves, as you can see in this Wired News article: Record Industry Wants Still More. You think they’d be happy that things are finally starting to move in their direction. The only shocking thing to learn is that Tina Weymouth seems to have bought in to the RIAA party line. I would hope for more sophistication from her.
Moore’s film canned by Disney
Disney is preventing Miramax from distributing Michael Moore’s next film, Fahrenheit 911. Many will call it censorship, and there are concerns that Jeb Bush has warned Disney to take such action in exchange for tax breaks in Florida. More accurately, it’s cowardice: “The [Disney] executive said Mr. Moore’s film is deemed to be against Disney’s interests not because of the company’s business dealings with the government but because Disney caters to families of all political stripes and believes Mr. Moore’s film… could alienate many.”
New to the US political scene:
The Ars Electronica 2004 Awards
have been announced, and in the Computer Animation/Visual Effects category the winner is Chris Landreth for a film called “Ryan.” The subject of the film is Ryan Larkin, a groundbreaking, Oscar-nominated animator in the golden age of the National Film board who since has fallen on hard times. Larkin hangs out in my neighbourhood on St-Laurent Blvd, and spends time every evening at my local watering hole, the Copa. Ironically (or not) the film is a co-production of the NFB, where Larkin used to work.
If you haven’t read it yet,
Sy Hersh’s article about Iraqi prison abuses is online.
I haven’t commented about all of this, because frankly words have escaped me. I do know three things, however.
- Any American leader who pleads “isolated incident” is going to be subject to ridicule.
- To me, the leadership (military and ‘intelligence’) who say they didn’t know anything about this is as culpable in this as the torturers.
- These are war crimes and should be tried as such.
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