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May 17th, 2005 Site Note - If you permalink to a posting of mine, you can now use the headline of the section as a internal bookmark reference. For example, JG.com recently linked to my comments in "George's Almost Judges" with the permalink for the page: http://matthewmaynard.net/dailies/20050511.shtml He could have also linked with: http://matthewmaynard.net/dailies/20050511.shtml#GeorgesAlmostJudges The link for this posting is: http://matthewmaynard.net/dailies/20050517.shtml#SiteNote Note that the spaces and punctuation have been removed. Also note that "The Roommate formerly known as Matthew Maynard" is a misnomer - I am still known as Matthew Maynard, but I am no longer his roommate. TiVo Travails - My sister in law is going to start her Masters this fall just up the road at the pit of abomination, and she'll be living with her parents. Since they have a TiVo, she doesn't need hers, so she loaned it to us. Unfortunately it needs a subscription to their "service" in order to work. Remember when you could set up your VCR to record shows you wanted to watch later without having to pay for anything more than the tape? So much for the golden times. Good Movie - Reviewing a movie seems like a better filler for Tuesdays than stamps, no? I think yes, so it's what you're going to get on Tuesdays. Now like it! Especially since the lead actor in today's movie has his own stamp! TMC had Twelve Angry Men on last night, as part of celebrating Henry Fonda's upcoming would-be 100th birthday this Friday. If you have never seen it, go out and rent it or buy it, as it was one of Henry Fonda's personal three favorite movies he ever was in. Twelve men sit through a 1st degree murder trial, then are seated for deliberation. A vote is called for, which is 11-1, favor of conviction. Henry Fonda is the lone holdout. Each juror speaks up, saying why he voted for conviction, and Fonda rebuts each one. Yet the stand for conviction remains, so Fonda suggests a secret ballot vote. If it's 11-1, he'll not hang the jury, he'll switch. But if it isn't, they sit and discuss. The vote comes out 10-2, and the drama begins in earnest. I've yet to see anything on TV nowadays that conveys the need for justice applied fairly and according to a fixed standard better than that movie. The cinematography, the script, and the acting go together as a jigsaw puzzle, intricately detailed and expertly assembled. Henry Fonda produced the movie, and in doing so, created one of the great courtroom dramas. Too bad it lost the 1958 Best Picture Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. It deserved at least one of those. Wondering About Bigotries - I try to hesitate before calling someone racist, since it requires the ability to read a person's heart, a skill for which humanity is very poorly equipped and yet very eager to exercise. Looking over the coverage of the outbreak of Ratheritis at Newsweek, though, I have questions as to the Big Media's perceptions of those in the Third World, the military, and in corporations. Reporters are quick to jump on any corporation that makes a mistake - remember how they treated Exxon after the Valdez oil spill? Remember how they dealt with the military at Abu Ghraib? Why do they excuse the violence perpetrated against innocents by the regimes of the world? Perhaps it isn't racism they suffer from, but class-ism. Perhaps they view the people in other countries as incapable of well-reasoned reaction to events, the military as too brazen and violent, and the corporate classes in the US as too greedy. Yet they treat their own members with kid gloves when caught in offenses at least as bad as those they accuse others of performing. They pay tribute to those in their own class, and those they associate with, but outside their realm? Everyone has a big target on their back, and their pens look like swords. They are Cassius and the rest of the world is their Caesar. Hypocrisy: the body odor of the media that remains unwashed by a heartfelt, earnest desire for truth. On A Lighter Note - New York Times. CBS. Newsweek. And now, ABC. What? the? FLIP? is? wrong? with? these? people? What can we trust that comes from these people, anything? They reported that George W. Bush won a second term. Is that true? Probably, he seems to be acting like it. But they also reported that John Kerry won his party's nomination. He didn't run like he did, so was he the actual nominee? We need a way to discern truth in reporting. So to whom do we turn?
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