[Peace-discuss] Re: Frontline, Venezuela

Morton K. Brussel brussel at illinois.edu
Tue Nov 25 18:38:06 CST 2008


John,

Read the article (I guess you have), look at the program, and tell us  
afterwards your conclusions about the program and if and why the  
article is wrong.

I'm not going to watch it; I've watched too many hatchet jobs done by  
Frontline.

--mkb


On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:33 PM, John W. wrote:

> Gosh, I must be stupid.  I didn't understand the cynicism in the  
> Counterpunch article, and I don't understand it on this list.   It  
> just seems to be generalized cynicism, a propos of nothing.  Whom  
> do we hate here?  Chavez?  Filmmakers who attempt to make films  
> about Chavez?  Filmmakers who are not perfectly biased in the  
> precise ways that the Counterpunch author is biased?  What?
>
> John Wason
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM, David Green  
> <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/irelan11252008.html
>
> One might use the time better to build a pinata and pound it with a  
> baseball bat.
>
> DG
>
>
> Check-out PBS Frontline tomorrow ( Tuesday ) at 8pm, about Hugo  
> Chavez.
>
> It will probably be the usual PBS hatchet job propoganda, sugar  
> coated in a fascade of  supposed" intellectual objectivity ", that  
> has the corporate agenda as it's purpose.
>
> But it may still be worth a look for curiosity sake.
>
> David Johnson
>
> Check-out PBS Frontline tomorrow ( Tuesday ) at 8pm, about Hugo  
> Chavez.
>
> It will probably be the usual PBS hatchet job propoganda, sugar  
> coated in a fascade of  supposed" intellectual objectivity ", that  
> has the corporate agenda as it's purpose.
>
> But it may still be worth a look for curiosity sake.
>
> David Johnson
>
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