[Peace-discuss] NYT Attacks "Border" with False Rant of Pro-CoupReporter

[Jenifer Cartwright]

I'm the person who has had quite a bit of e-exchange w/ the Art's new owner/manager. He's on record as being very interested in showing the film and said he'll ask his agent-booking person to look into making it happen if possible... and that he'll get back to me/us re getting the word out (among likely attendees among peace etc groups) and finding someone for after-film discussion. --Jenifer

--- On Mon, 6/28/10, unionyes <unionyes at ameritech.net> wrote:

From: unionyes <unionyes at ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] NYT Attacks "Border" with False Rant of Pro-CoupReporter
To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 1:43 PM

Bob,

As you mentioned on Saturday, someone on this list said that they would contact the owner of the ART Theatre to arrange a showing of Oliver Stone's new film " SOUTH OF THE BORDER ".

Who was it on this list who stated that they would make that contact ?

I would love to see this film play in town at a venue like the ART Theatre, especially if we could get Mark Weisbrot to be there as well.

I would be willing to help out in making this happen.

David J.
721-0583

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] NYT Attacks "Border" with False Rant of Pro-CoupReporter


> No reasonable person would have bet serious money that news editors at
> the New York Times would be huge fans of Oliver Stone's new
> documentary about South America, "South of the Border." But still,
> accepting that no-one likes to be criticized, there are supposed to be
> rules for newspapers like the Times. News articles are supposed to be
> accurate, and if a reporter has a direct interest or bias in a
> situation, the paper should assign another reporter or at least
> disclose the interest or bias. But on Friday, the New York Times ran
> an attack on Oliver Stone's documentary by Larry Rohter. Not only was
> the attack inaccurate; more importantly, the Times failed to
> acknowledge the bias of Larry Rohter. Rohter covered Venezuela for the
> Times during the period of the April 2002 coup in Venezuela, and
> during the coup, Rohter wrote a piece for the Times claiming that the
> coup was not a coup, but a popular uprising. That alone should have
> disqualified Rohter from writing a piece on the film for publication
> by the Times. At the very least, the paper should have acknowledged
> Rohter's previous advocacy for the coup - and its own.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/nyt-attacks-border-with-f_b_627984.html
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/28/133550/168
> 
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/631
> 
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